Fram Museum

The polar ship Fram stands at the centre of the Fram Museum (Frammuseet), its original interior intact so that visitors can go inside. The Scots-Norwegian shipbuilder Colin Archer designed and built the vessel to specifications from the Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen, who financed it in 1891 with Norwegian government grants and private funding.

The museum tells the story of Norwegian polar exploration. It honours Nansen, Otto Sverdrup and Roald Amundsen in particular, and also shows images of polar wildlife such as polar bears and penguins. A dedicated building houses Gjøa, the first vessel to transit the Northwest Passage, a three-year voyage that Amundsen and a crew of six completed in 1906. The museum took over the ship's exhibition in 2009, and since 2017 Gjøa has been fully accessible to visitors.

Opened in 1936, the museum stands on the Bygdøy peninsula alongside the Kon-Tiki Museum, the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, the Viking Ship Museum and the Norwegian Maritime Museum.