Norwegian Maritime Museum (left)
The Fram Museum (Norwegian: Frammuseet) is a museum telling the story of Norwegian polar exploration. It is located on the peninsula of Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway. [1]
The museum was inaugurated on 20 May 1936. It honours Norwegian (rather than international) polar exploration and the three great Norwegian polar explorers—Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup and Roald Amundsen. The museum also exhibits images of the fauna of the polar regions, such as polar bears and penguins.[2]
The Fram Museum is centered principally on the original exploration vessel Fram. The original interior of Fram is intact, and visitors can go inside the ship to view it.
In May 2009 the Norwegian Maritime Museum and the Fram Museum signed an agreement for the Fram Museum to take over the exhibition of the Gjøa. Roald Amundsen and a crew of six traversed the Northwest Passage aboard the Gjøa in a three year journey which was finished in 1906. [3]