Nobel Creations 2026

Preview: written before the show opened

Somewhere in this room is a piece of gala wear based on a cubic kilometre of South Pole ice, fitted with light sensors to catch neutrinos. That's the 2026 physics prize, set as a brief for first-year fashion students at Beckmans College of Design.

Since 2011 the students have made one free interpretation of each of the six prizes. This year's other briefs: molecules that are each other's mirror image, an algae protein that switches nerve cells on and off with light, Anne Carson's poetry in dialogue with the classics, Navi Pillay's work for international law, and how to steady an economy through booms and slumps. Every 10 December, Stockholm rates the banquet gowns on SVT from the sofa; these ones you judge standing up, and they're about neutrinos.

It's six pieces, included in the 160 SEK museum ticket (students 120 SEK, under-18s free). It opens on 5 December and runs to 31 January, and the museum stays open until 21:00 on Fridays.