It is a great pleasure for us to present ‘Fram Museum – the books’. We have published an accompanying book along with all our temporary and traveling exhibitions, but this is the first time we have published a book containing all the permanent exhibitions in the Museum. In the orange book (336 pages) you will…

Here you can go straight to our playliset on Youtube where you´ll find the complete guided tour through Fram with director Geir O. Kløver.

Happy Holiday Season to all of our followers and to our 360.000 visitors in 2019! We’re looking forward to seeing you again in 2020 when we will have plenty of new features in the museum!

In the last decade three of polar history’s most famous wrecks have been discovered. Distinguished explorers and bestselling authors John Geiger and Mensun Bound will present the sensational discoveries of John Franklin’s HMS Erebus and Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance. NOK 150,- Only 100 tickets available! Tickets can be booked from the link in this PDF. Please…

The Fram Committee and the staff of the Fram Museum are all saddened by the news of His Majesty King Harald V of Norway’s death. Since his reign started in 1991, His Majesty has been a great supporter of the museum. He has over the years opened all the current permanent exhibitions in the museum…

A big thank you to everyone who has visited us this year, and for the support both at the museum and online with interactions on our posts and shares, and the continuing excitement for all of polar history! Here is a video from christmas eve aboard the Fram in 1910, when the crew was celebrating…

Our exhibition The Nansen Photographs has opened in Germany at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin where it can be seen in its German translation Reise ans Ende der Welt. There is also a new German translation of the book, available here.

The Nansen Photographs and the first Fram expedition are featured in a new article in the Daily Mail. Have a read by clicking the link below to get a sneak peek at the book, then head on over to our webshop to purchase the book yourself! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-11453221/New-book-Nansen-Photographs-reveals-astonishing-photos-epic-1890s-North-Pole-expedition.html https://frammuseum.no/shop/nb/product/the-nansen-photographs/

The Fram Museum wishes you welcome to our brand new exhibition: “Fridtjof Nansen – The Artist”! Available for all visitors to the museum until Nov 2024. Beyond his well-known accomplishments as an explorer, scientist and humanitarian, Fridtjof Nansen was also a talented and passionate artist. This exhibition explores the lesser-known aspect of Nansen´s life: his…

The Heroic Age Expedition led by the Royal Canadian Geographic Society, has succesfully made new diving trips down to the wreck of the Terra Nova, read more: Artikkel på Forskning.no med Frammuseets direktør Geir O. Kløver Live Expedition Blog at Canadian Geographic The Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/15/deep-sea-expedition-builds-digital-twins-shipwrecks-scott-shackleton

For the opening of the Fram Museums new exhibition “Sailing The Sea Of Science” on 22.06.22, which tells the story of Prince Albert Is expeditions and earlier Norwegian expeditions to Svalbard, we were pleased to receive Crown Prince Haakon and Prince Albert II of Monaco, accompanied by Princess Charlene and their two children, Hereditary prince…

And now for something completely different: Now open! – A polar ceramics exhibition featuring the artworks of Theodor Friestad. The different pieces range from pots and urns to small fountains and large and small arctic animals. Originally the works were intended for display at a major international polar exhibition in Bergen in 1940, but then…

På vår Youtube kanal kan dere nå høre side A av vinylen om polarskibet Fram, et hørespill fra 1962 som tar for seg første og andre Fram ferd i korte trekk. Nå redigert med bilder fra ekspedisjonene. Med blant andre Harald Heide Steen på rollelisten. Side B som tar for seg Roald Amundsens ekspedisjon til…

A wonderful new addition to the John Franklin and the Franklin search exhibition has just opened at the Fram Museum. President and CEO of Parks Canada Ron Hallman handed over an exact replica of the bell of HMS Erebus to Geir O. Kløver, the Director of the Fram Museum, in a ceremony in our Gjøa…

Please download this years program and use the email link on page 2 to contact us if you are interested in joining. Final deadline for booking: 30 November! EDIT: It appears that the email link within the pdf itself doesn’t work correctly in the latest version of the Preview app on a Mac. Please manually…

TICKETS TO THIS YEARS LECTURES ARE NOW UNFORTUNATELY SOLD OUT We are pleased to announce that booking for this years Amundsen Memorial Lectures are now open. The lectures are an annual event here at the Fram Museum and consist of two days of lectures, a movie in our cinema, a field trip (optional, limited seats)…

Available in our museum store and web-shop, here: Roald Amundsen Plushie!

Credits : Maeva Bardy – Tara Ocean Foundation

Tara Stopover with tour and lecture. One day only! Tuesday June 25th There will be a conference on microplastics and the Tara Ocean Foundation, available free* visitors at the Fram Museum at 2:30pm. Guided tours onboard the ship will also be arranged every half hour between 2pm and 4:30pm. (Maximum 30 people per tour). Contact…