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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.
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
National Museum of Norway; Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo; Nobel Peace Center; Nordic Bible Museum; Norway's Resistance Museum; Norwegian Maritime Museum; Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art; Norwegian Museum of Cultural History; Norwegian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design; Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology ...
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.
The museum was originally built to house the Kon-Tiki, a raft of balsa wood of pre-Columbian model that Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl used to sail from Peru to Polynesia in 1947. Another boat in the museum is the Ra II , a vessel built of reeds according to Heyerdahl's perception of an ancient Egyptian seagoing boat.
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Gjøa was displayed in the Norwegian Maritime Museum (Norwegian: Norsk Maritimt Museum) in Bygdøy, Oslo. In May 2009 the Norwegian Maritime Museum and the Fram Museum (Norwegian: Frammuseet) signed an agreement for the Fram Museum of Bygdøy to take over the exhibition of Gjøa. It has been displayed in a separate building at Fram Museum. [17]
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