The Fram Museum () is a museum telling the story of Norwegian polar exploration. It is located on the peninsula of

Bygdøy Bygdøy or Bygdø is a peninsula situated on the western side of Oslo, Norway. Administratively, Bygdøy is part of the borough of Frogner. It historically was part of Aker Municipality and became part of Oslo in 1948. Bygdøy is a popular recr ...

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. Fram Museum is in an area with several other museums including the Kon-Tiki Museum, the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, the Viking Ship Museum and the Norwegian Maritime Museum. Bygdøy Royal Estate, the official summer residence of the

King of Norway The Norwegian monarch is the head of state of Norway, which is a constitutional and hereditary monarchy with a parliamentary system. The Norwegian monarchy can trace its line back to the reign of Harald Fairhair and the previous petty king ...

, and historic Oscarshall are also located nearby. The Fram Museum was inaugurated on 20 May 1936. It honours Norwegian polar exploration in general and three great Norwegian polar explorers in particular –

Fridtjof Nansen Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen (; 10 October 1861 – 13 May 1930) was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and co-founded the ...

, Otto Sverdrup and

Roald Amundsen Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (, ; ; 16 July 1872 – ) was a Norwegians, Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He was a key figure of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Born in Borge, Østfold, Norway, Am ...

. The museum also exhibits images of the fauna of the polar regions, such as

polar bear The polar bear (''Ursus maritimus'') is a large bear native to the Arctic and nearby areas. It is closely related to the brown bear, and the two species can Hybrid (biology), interbreed. The polar bear is the largest extant species of bear ...

s and

penguin Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds from the family Spheniscidae () of the order Sphenisciformes (). They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. Only one species, the Galápagos penguin, is equatorial, with a sm ...

s. The Fram Museum is centred principally on the original exploration vessel '' Fram''. The original interior of ''Fram'' is intact and visitors can go inside the ship to view it. '' Fram'' was commissioned, designed, and built by Scots-Norwegian shipbuilder Colin Archer to specifications provided by Norwegian Arctic explorer

, who financed the building of the ship with a combination of grant monies provided by the Norwegian government and private funding in 1891. In May 2009 the Norwegian Maritime Museum and the Fram Museum signed an agreement for the Fram Museum to take over the exhibition of the '' Gjøa'', the first vessel to transit the

Northwest Passage The Northwest Passage (NWP) is the sea lane between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, near the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Arctic Archipelago of Canada. The eastern route along the Arctic ...

. Roald Amundsen and a crew of six accomplished that feat in a three-year journey which was finished in 1906. '' Gjøa'' is situated inside her own dedicated building at the museum. In 2017 the ship was made fully accessible to visitors.

Gallery

File:The_Fram_Museum_in_Oslo,_Norway.jpg, Fram Museum interior after the 2018 modernization File:Gjøa_deck.jpg, From the deck of polar ship ''Gjøa'' File:Fram_engine_room.jpg, Engine room of the polar ship ''Fram'' File:The_Fram_Museum_interior_1st_floor.jpg, Inside the Fram Museum File:Fram_Museum_building,_June_2014.jpg, Fram Museum in the summer

References

External links

Fram Museum Official site
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