Opening night May 7th 2018 for our many new attractions was a great success The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide, surrounded by the Fram Museum’s chairman Olav Orheim (left) and director Geir O. Kløver (right) The Fram Museum has now opened a wave (pun intended) of new attractions, including a huge ocean […]

At the William Mills Prize for Polar Books 2018, Fram Museum director Geir O. Kløver’s book ’Lessons from the Arctic – How Roald Amundsen Won the Race to the South Pole’ received Honorary Mention, as one of only two books. The William Mills Price ”honours the best Arctic or Antarctic nonfiction book published throughout the […]

The Royal Canadian Geographical Society launches 2018 Summer Exhibits series at 50 Sussex. Summer series features three exhibitions: Compass by Hilde Lambrechts, Explore by Chris Cran, and Lessons from the Arctic, an artifact display honouring Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen At an event Wednesday celebrating all three exhibitions, Her Excellency Anne Kari Hansen Ovind, Norway’s Ambassador to […]

The Roald Amundsen Memorial Lectures are held each year at the Fram Museum during the first weekend of December This year’s event was a big success with lots of our friends arriving from near and far to take part. The lectures were initiated with the opening of a new exhibition and book launch; Into The […]

After just over 120 years Fridtjof Nansen has returned to his old cabin on board the polar ship Fram. For this we can thank Swedish artist and modelmaker Cathrine Abrahamsson and her team who have worked hard on the features, posture and clothes of our new Nansen figure: Meanwhile in Stockholm, Cathrine is hard at […]

One of the biggest jewels in our museum – the Gjøa, is slowly coming together as she originally was in 1903 when Roald Amundsen set out to find the Northwest passage. Thanks to Hardanger Fartøyvernsenter she is being carefully restored and now, thanks to our friends and neighbors at the Norwegian Maritime Museum, the original DAN engine is back. […]

A special english edition of Roald Amundsen’s personal diary from the Northwest Passage was launched at the Canadian Parliament on 1 June 2017. The special one-volume edition was made by the Fram Museum at the request of the Norwegian Embassy in Canada as the official gift from Norway to Canada In connection with Canada’s 150th […]

On 1 June, the Norwegian Embassy in Canada organised an Amundsen-event in cooperation with the Fram Museum and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. The meeting was the first event in RCGC’s brand new building at 50 Sussex Drive, Ottawa. The purpose of the meeting was to present Roald Amundsen’s personal diary from the Northwest Passage […]

On June 3rd 2017 a new statue of polar hero Adolf Lindstrøm was unveiled in his hometown of Hammerfest in the northern part of Norway. See the video at Hammerfestingen (Norwegian language)

When the weather permits it you can now have lunch on the new patio overloking the fjord.