Travel Reference
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Cost and Hours: 80 kr, audioguide-20 kr; open June-mid-Sept daily
10:00-18:00, Tue and Fri until 20:00; mid-Sept-May Wed-Sun 11:00-17:00,
Tue 11:00-20:00; closed Mon year-round; free guided tours in English in sum-
mer daily at 10:15, 11:15, 15:00, and 16:00, fewer off-season; on Stortorget
in the center of Gamla Stan a block from the Royal Palace, tel. 08/5348-1800,
www.nobelmuseum.se .
Visiting the Museum: Stockholm-born Alfred Nobel was a great inventor,
with more than 300 patents. His most famous invention: dynamite. Living in
the late 1800s, Nobel was a man of his age. It was a time of great optimism,
wild ideas, and grand projects. His dynamite enabled entire nations to blast
their way into the modern age with canals, railroads, and tunnels. It made war-
fare much more destructive. And it also made Alfred Nobel a very wealthy
man. Wanting to leave a legacy that celebrated and supported people with
great ideas, Alfred used his fortune to fund the Nobel Prize. Every year since
1901, laureates have been honored in the fields of physics, chemistry, medi-
cine, literature, and peacemaking.
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