The Nobel Museum’s global travelling exhibition presents the entrepreneur and innovator Alfred Nobel. The visitor will learn more about his life, his network of co-workers, business contacts and friends and, finally, how he gets the idea to donate money for an international prize. Through video artworks and new-recorded short films the visitor gets to know Alfred Nobel in a new way and also to meet some Nobel Laureates and members of the Nobel Committees on a number of small monitors.

The exhibition is built in five pavilions with different headlines, each one of the pavilions deals with a part of the story about Alfred Nobel. It is:

•    The cities S:t Petersburg and Paris – where Nobel lived most of his life
•    Innovations – that characterized his lifetime achievement
•    Networks – which made his large business empire possible
•    The last will – the foundation for the Nobel Prize

“Alfred Nobel – Networks of Innovation” is innovative just as Alfred Nobel himself. In total there is no less then 160 monitors installed in the exhibition. From one single computer it is possible to design, synchronize, schedule and publish information on the thin client in each monitor. An example of the advantages with this flexible solution is that texts could easily be changed to another language when the exhibition arrives in a new country.

This exhibition project has also resulted in a book. Alfred Nobel: Networks of Innovation is published by the Nobel Museum in collaboration with Science History Publications/USA.

Exhibition première took place in Dubai in spring 2008 and after Paris the world tour continued to St Petersburg.

Previous travelling exhibitions
The Nobel Foundation's Centennial Exhibition "Cultures of Creativity" has been created in duplicate and one copy travelled the world from 2001-2007. The last stop for the travelling exhibition was in Abu Dhabi. The tour programme was:

Norwegian Folk Museum, Oslo, Norway
August 9, 2001 - December 17, 2001

National Science Museum, Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan
March 18, 2002 - June 9, 2002

The Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
August 22 (opening ceremony, August 23 – open to public) 2002 - November 3, 2002

Houston Museum of Natural Science, Texas, USA
February 7, 2003 - 11 May 2003

Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, Illinois, USA
September 27, 2003 - December 10, 2003

National Science Center, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
March 20 - June 27, 2004

Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
September 15 - January 2, 2005

New York Hall of Science, New York, USA
March 13, 2005 - May 21, 2005

Exploratorium, San Francisco, USA
July 14, 2005 - October 2, 2005

British Library, London, UK
December 2, 2005 - March 15, 2006

Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum (VITM),  Bangalore, India
May 27- August 31,  2006

National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore.
October 26, 2006 - January 24, 2007

University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
April 16 - July 15, 2007

The Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
October 23 - December 15, 2007