Fram Museum

Bygdøy Royal Estate, the official summer residence of the King of Norway, and historic Oscarshall are also located nearby.

It honours Norwegian polar exploration in general and three great Norwegian polar explorers in particular – Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup and Roald Amundsen.

The original interior of Fram is intact and visitors can go inside the ship to view it.

Fram was commissioned, designed, and built by Scots-Norwegian shipbuilder Colin Archer to specifications provided by Norwegian Arctic explorer Fridtjof Nansen, who financed the building of the ship with a combination of grant monies provided by the Norwegian government and private funding in 1891.

Roald Amundsen and a crew of six accomplished that feat in a three-year journey which was finished in 1906.