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…

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)

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…

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…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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.…

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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:

In connection with the State Visit of King Harald and Queen Sonja to Argentina this month, the Fram Museum, in cooperation with the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, opened the exhibition ‘Norway and Argentina – The Antarctic Connection’. The exhibition was shown at the Argentinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The arrival of King Harald, Queen…