A Visit to Nobel Museum in Stockholm!

When I visited Stockholm the first thing in my mind was to visit the Nobel Museum. It was a pilgrimage for me.

After entering into the museum, and completing the formalities the first thing that I saw was an emblem of the Nobel prize on the ground encircled with six electronics pillars. The pillars represent six streams in which the prize is given. Three electronics pillars of Physics, Chemistry and Medicine.  Three electronics pillars of Literature, Peace and Economics.

Three electronics pillars of Physics, Chemistry and Medicine.

Three electronics pillars of Literature, Peace and Economics.

Happiness hates the timid! So does science!

by Eugene O’Neill.

Inside Nobel Museum in Stockholm.

The works and life of the Nobel laureates over the decades.

It was wonderful to witness an intelligent use of information technology along with different media to describe the works and life of the Nobel laureates over the decades. The descriptions of the decades are as follows:
1911-1920  Europe at war
1921-1930  The Roaring Twenties
1931-1940  Fascism And Nazism Win Ground
1941-1950  The Darkness Of War
1951-1960  The Cold war
1961-1970  Radicalism
1971-1980  Radicalism lives on
1981- 1990 The Fall Of The Wall
1991-2000  After The Fall Of The Regimes
2001-2010  Globalization And Terror Threats

Inside Nobel Museum.

Two small halls in the Nobel Museum, which show documentaries on Nobel Laureates

Inside the museum there are two small halls which show short documentaries on some of the Nobel laureates. I chose to see a documentary on the life of Rabindranath Tagore (Poet & Philosopher) – the first Asian Nobel laureate from India in 1913. His works and thoughts has a profound influence on me and continues to guide me in my quest for a meaningful life.

Watching documentary inside Nobel museum.

Interface of the computer display showing Rabindranath Tagore inside Nobel Museum.

I must emphasize the interface or the computer display is very user friendly.

I believe any creation, be it in science or the arts, goes beyond the narrow and fragmented walls of countries and cultures. Certainly the quote by Nobel Laureate Marie Curie (twice in 1903 & 1911)  near the entrance is liberating.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of a historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

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The souvenir shop

The souvenir shop inside the museum was selling a replica of Nobel’s dynamite. After all Alfred Nobel was the inventor of dynamite. Interesting!! My visit to the Nobel museum is a fulfillment of my childhood’s desire nurtured carefully for so many years.

The souvenir shop inside the Nobel Museum.

Travel Tip: If you are planning a trip to Scandinavia, then consider getting a Scandinavia pass.

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I would like to end with the quote.

Contentment is the only real wealth.

by Alfred Bernhard Nobel

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Chirasree Banerjee

Hello. My name is Chirasree. I have been traveling for almost 11 years to places all over the world. I enter into a separate reality during my travels and enjoy the allure of escape from the mundane. I seek beauty through nature and human-made creations. Because beauty is powerful. I seek knowledge. I observe, absorb, and write about the places I visit and the profound realizations and inspirations that each place has to offer.