The 21st of May marks the centenary of the Amundsen-Ellsworth polar flight expedition and the forming of the Fram Museum Committee.
To celebrate, the Fram Museum is proud to present both the thrilling new Roald Amundsen North Pole Flight Simulator and a new permanent exhibition focused on the N25-N24 flights in 1925.
The exhibition and attraction was opened on May 21st 2025 with attendance by His Majesty King Harald V with guests and friends of the museum.
The Roald Amundsen North Pole Flight Simulator aims to take you back in time to 1925, when Roald Amundsen attempted to fly to the North Pole with five others in the two Dornier-Wal sea planes, the N24 and the N25.
They started from Kings Bay, Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, on 21 May 1925 and flew side by side to 87°43′ N, where they landed on leads in the drift ice after more than eight hours in the air. N24 had been damaged on take-off and it was now obvious that the plane could not be flown again. The six men struggled for 3½ weeks to create a runway on the shifting ice. On 15 June Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen managed to get N25 into the air with all six men on board.
Come visit the new attraction to experience the thrills and chills of a heroic polar flight, with moving seats and effects letting you be a part of the expedition from take off to landing on the ice and the incredible effort by the crew to get the N25 back in the air!
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Welcome to the Fram Museum in 2025!