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Roald Amundsen Memorial Lectures 2018

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 […]

Nansen is back in his cabin

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 […]

The Gjøa is reunited with its original engine

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. […]

Amundsen-event in the Royal Canadian Geographical Society

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 […]

United States & Norway – Partners in the Polar Regions

On 7 June the Fram Museum opened a new exhibition on Norwegian and American collaboration in the Polar regions. “United States & Norway – Partners in the Polar Regions” The Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Børge Brende and United States Ambassador Samuel Heins officially opened the event, and welcome remarks and an introduction was conducted […]

Adolf Lindstrøm back in the galley

120 years after he first set his foot on the Fram, the most famous cook on any Polar expedition is back where he belong. The Swedish model maker Cathrine Abrahamsson has made this time travel possible. Polar Cook Lindstrøm was a Norwegian cook and polar expeditioner who participated on three of the most famous Norwegian […]