BACKGROUND OF EXHIBITION

The year 2001 marked the 100th Anniversary of the Nobel Prize . More than 700 Laureates have received this prestigious Prize for their outstanding contributions in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, Peace and Economics.

The Nobel Foundation established the Nobel Museum in Stockholm in commemoration of the centennial of the Nobel Prize. A vital part of this museum is to produce temporary exhibitions on modern science and culture.

The first of these exhibitions is the Centennial Exhibition themed “Cultures of Creativity: Individuals and Milieus”. This exhibition has been created in duplicate whereby one is on display at Stockholm while the other that is known as ''The Nobel Prize Centennial Travelling Exhibition'', is for display at other venues outside Sweden.

This exhibition highlights individual creativity , creative milieus , the Nobel System, Alfred Nobel and his time, timeline and the Nobel Laureates 1901- 2001.

The Theme that has been chosen for the Centennial Exhibition is Creativity. The main, underlying questions of the Exhibition will be : “What is creativity, and how can creative activity best be encouraged?” and the question of “Which is more important to the creative process : the individual or the milieu, that is the environment in which the work is being done?” The answers to these questions will be illustrated through the exhibition in a manner that will be thought provoking to the visitor.