Fram Museum

The Fram Museum is a museum dedicated to polar exploration located in Norway in the western part of Oslo; it stands on the pier of the Bygdøy peninsula, where there are other important museums such as the Kon-Tiki Museum, the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo, the Norsk Folkemuseum, the Norwegian folklore museum and the Norsk Maritimt Museum, the Norwegian maritime museum.

The museum was inaugurated on May 20, 1936 and its name was dedicated to the Fram, the ship, built by the Scottish naval architect Colin Archer, used in the explorations of the Arctic and Antarctica by Norwegian explorers such as Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup, Oscar Wisting and Roald Amundsen.

The museum contains the Fram ship, fully restored and also open to the inside, and since 2013 also the Gjøa ship, as well as a rich gallery of images and documents relating to polar explorations.

As the most famous wooden polar ship in the world, Fram is a symbol of Norway's significant participation in the heroic era of exploration.

Today the Fram Museum contains exhibits of the most famous travels of global historical significance.

 

The centerpiece of the museum is obviously the strongest wooden ship in the world, the polar ship Fram.

The public can get on board and take a look in its cabins, lounge, hold and engine room.

Map: Fram Museum