The Fram Museum

23/04/2026

Happy World Book Day!

We’re celebrating by offering 20% on all books* in our store! Either head to the museum or check our webshop! Use code: worldbookdayfram at checkout!

Happy reading!📖

*not applicable for books already on sale or other products

15/04/2026

Yesterday April 14th 2026 marked the 100 year anniversary for the Airship Norge arriving in Oslo at Ekeberg in 1926.

The event was celebrated at Ekeberg, read more about it here:

The 14th of April marks the 100 year anniversary since The Airship Norge arrived in Oslo at Ekeberg in 1926, on its way to the North Pole! The occasion was celebrated on the 14th of April 2026 at Ekeberg with an event hosted by Bekkelagshøgda Lokalhistoriske Forening, Pilotforbundet, Landsforeninge...

13/04/2026

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10/04/2026

The Amundsen - Ellsworth - Nobile Transpolar Flight centenary in Lauro continued with a special seminar at the Lauro Municipality. The speakers included Nobile’s great grandson, Norway’s ambassador Tord Tukun, Nobile Museum Director Antonio Ventre, Fram Museum Director Geir O Kløver and Giulana Paneri from Instituto Scienze Polari

10/04/2026

The 100th anniversary of the Amundsen - Ellsworth - Nobile Transpolar Flight 1926 started today in Nobile’s birthplace Lauro, with the Italian postoffice cancelling special cards and stamps at 9 in the morning April 10 2026, 100 years after the airship Norge left Rome for Pulham, Oslo, Leningrad, Vadsø and Kings Bay - Svalbard. The event was coordinated by the Nobile Museum in Lauro.

23/03/2026

The Fram Museum is easily accessed all year via the Bygdøy ferry sailing from City Hall to Bygdøynes!

16/03/2026

New book out now!!

«First To The North Pole - Roald Amundsens Flight in Norge Across the Arctic»

Available in our store and online.

It’s 100 years since the journey of the airship «Norge».

This book includes the full story of the Norge expedition through Roald Amundsen`s personal diary, the first publication of the personal expedition diaries and logbooks of Lincoln Ellsworth, Umberto Nobile and Bernt Balchen, a large number of newspaper articles following the expedition day to day, and more than 350 photos from archives in Norway, USA and Italy.

28/01/2026

We are sorry to learn that author Roland Huntford (born 1927) died last Friday after short illness. His biographies Last Place on Earth (1979), Nansen (1997) and Shackleton (1985) are pillars in polar literature and were key in creating the global fame of Roald Amundsen and Ernest Shackleton. The books are still bestsellers at the Fram Museum and elsewhere. Other frozen titles includes The Amundsen Photographs (1987), The Shackleton Voyages (2002), How to get to the Bottom (1966) and Two Planks and a Passion (2008). Huntford held the first Roald Amundsen Memorial Lecture on South Pole Day, the 14 December 2012 and has donated artifacts to the Fram Museum. RIP.

26/01/2026

A wonderful new edition 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 small ceremony in our Gjøa Building last Thursday. While the original bell is at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, 12 high quality copies were made and given to organizations important to the search of Franklin’s ships. The Fram Museum was given the last copy in honor of the permanent exhibitions on the exploration of the Northwest Passage and for keeping these legacies alive.

The bell is exhibited with original letters from participants on John Franklin’s expeditions and key expedition leaders in the search for the Northwest Passage and the Franklin search. These includes John and Jane Franklin, Francis Crozier, William Edward Parry, James Clark Ross, John Rae, John Richardson, George Back and Francis Leopold McClintock. A document signed by Franklin, Parry, Back and Fredrick William Beechey on 28 April 1845 when HMS Erebus was officially handed over to John Franklin from Woolwich Dockyard is also exhibited with a Polar Medal and the rare Admiralty map of the Northwest Passage.

We are grateful to Parks Canada for the wonderful gift and look forward to further cooperation in the future.

04/01/2026

We are sorry to hear about the death of Norwegian actor Sverre Anker Ousdal, famous on our world as Roald Amundsen in Last Place on Earth and Knut Fraenkel in The Flight of the Eagle. Here reminicing about the filming of The Eagle with director Jan Troell at the Fram Museum in 2019. RIP

11/12/2025

We’ve hit last years visitors record 12 days earlier, so we would like to thank each and every one of you who’ve taken the trip out to Bygdøy and the Fram Museum in 2025! There’s still time of course, we are open every single day! Welcome!

08/12/2025

The Fram Museum is proud to exhibit «Fridtjof Nansen - Scientist and Humanitarian» during the Oslo - City of Peace event! Exhibition will be available from 1-20 of December!