OSLO.- The 2014 Peace Prize exhibition – Malala and Kailash tells the story of Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi’s unstoppable fight for children’s rights. The exhibition is free of charge from midday on 12 December until the end of the year.

Both Nobel Peace Prize laureates have taken an active role in shaping the exhibition. Malala has recorded a personal video message, and organizers have been allowed to borrow family photos of her as a small child. Through photojournalist Lynsey Addario’s pictures of the Taliban’s occupation of the Swat Valley, where Malala grew up, the exhibition tells the story of youthful courage.

Kailash Satyarthi took Lynsey Addario along on raids to liberate child labourers, and to various centres where the children are offered a new and better life. In an in-depth interview with the BBC’s chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet, he talks about activism, setbacks and the importance of a secure childhood.

Honouring Malala Yousafzai’s own wish, the school uniform she wore when she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in October 2012, becomes part of the Nobel Peace Prize exhibition.

“My school uniform is very important to me because when I was going to school I would wear it. The day I was attacked I was wearing this uniform. I was fighting for my right to go to school, I was fighting for my right to get education. Wearing a uniform made me feel that yes, I am a student, I am doing it, practically. It is an important part of my life, now I want to show it to children, to people all around the world. This is my right, it is the right of every child, to go to school. This should not be neglected,” says Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai in an interview made for the exhibition.

“Malala’s blood-stained uniform is a strong and heartbreaking symbol of the forces many girls are fighting for the right to go to school”, says Bente Erichsen, Executive Director of the Nobel Peace Center. “The uniform has been kept by the family since the attempted murder in October 2012, and we are grateful that Malala has chosen to show it to the public in our exhibition.”

The making of the official Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition is an annual production that spans a mere eight weeks, from the announcement in October to the Nobel Days in December. This is the tenth consecutive Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition, filling the entire first level of the museum in Oslo, Norway.

Malala and Kailash is the Nobel Peace Center’s tenth peace prize exhibition. The exhibition has been put together over the course of eight hectic weeks, and will be officially opened by the laureates themselves on 11 December.

From the opening until the end of the year there will be two daily guided tours: in English at 1pm, and in Norwegian at 2pm.

Follow our exhibition blog (in Norwegian) about the creation of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize exhibition.