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.

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Thank you for visiting us online in 2017! We hope that you are well and that we will see you again soon!

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 […]

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 […]

The Fram Museum has received 5 million kroner from the Olav Thon Foundation towards the restoration of Roald Amundsen’s expedition ship Gjøa, the first ship through the Northwest Passage. With this donation it will be possible to start the restoration process in January 2017. The work will be conducted by Hardanger Fartøyvernsenter from Norheimsund. The […]