Nobel Prize Museum Receives Dag Hammarskjöld’s Suez Canal Cufflinks

The cufflinks from Dag Hammarskjöld's private collection have been donated by his family.

"The cufflinks are a symbol of and a reminder of Dag Hammarskjöld's peace work during the Suez Crisis of 1956. They help us tell the story of his work as a whole and what led to the Nobel Peace Prize," says Anna Rastner, director of the Nobel Prize Museum, in a press release.

The Swedish diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations between 1953 and 1961. One of his lasting contributions was designing and establishing the UN's first peacekeeping force in connection with the Suez Crisis of 1956.

Dag Hammarskjöld died in a plane crash in Ndola, now in Zambia, in 1961. That same year, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously.