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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] Fram Museum is in an area with several other museums including the Kon-Tiki Museum, the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History, the Viking Ship Museum and the Norwegian Maritime Museum.
It was designed and built by the Scottish-Norwegian shipwright Colin Archer for Fridtjof Nansen's 1893 Arctic expedition in which the plan was to freeze Fram into the Arctic ice sheet and float with it over the North Pole. Fram is preserved as a museum ship at the Fram Museum in Oslo, Norway.
It also incorporates a large open-air museum with more than 150 buildings, relocated from towns and rural districts. [1] The Norwegian Museum of Cultural History is situated on the Bygdøy peninsula near several other museums, including the Viking Ship Museum; the Fram Museum; the Kon-Tiki Museum; and the Norwegian Maritime Museum.
Fram Museum. All expenses were borne by the Fram privateers: each contributed one third of the total. The total cost of the expedition was about 220,000 krones (12,000 pound sterling). [8] [Note 1] Sverdrup wrote almost nothing about the equipment of the expedition, except to say that everything was done as well as possible. Most of the ...
Armed Forces Museum (Norway) Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art; University Botanical Garden (Oslo) Museum of Cultural History, Oslo; Fram Museum; Galleri Rom; Holmenkollen Ski Museum; Høstutstillingen; Norwegian Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities; Ibsen Museum (Oslo) Jewish Museum in Oslo; Kon-Tiki Museum; Munch Museum
Fram loaded heavily at the start on its first voyage 1893. The most notable single ship built by Colin Archer was the Fram, used by Fridtjof Nansen in his expedition attempt to the North Pole 1893-96 and by Roald Amundsen's 1911 historic expedition as the first to the South Pole. Fram is now preserved in the Fram Museum on Bygdøy, Oslo, Norway ...
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The Norwegian Maritime Museum (Norwegian: Norsk Maritimt Museum) is located at Bygdøynesveien on the Bygdøy peninsula, on the western side of Oslo, Norway.The Norwegian Maritime Museum is situated near several other museums, including the Fram Museum; the Kon-Tiki Museum; the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History; and the Viking Ship Museum.