{{Short description|Norwegian ship museum in Oslo}} thumb|The Fram Museum [[File:Fram Museum and Norw Maritime Museum.JPG|thumb|Fram Museum (right)<br>Norwegian Maritime Museum (left)]] [[File:Gjøa_2017.jpg|thumb|''Gjøa'', the first ship to sail through the Northwest Passage]]
The '''Fram Museum''' ({{langx|no|Frammuseet}}) is a museum telling the story of Norwegian polar exploration. It is located on the peninsula of Bygdøy in Oslo, Norway.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.explorenorth.com/library/weekly/aa122200a.htm|title=ExploreNorth|website=www.explorenorth.com|access-date=2019-02-06}}</ref>
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. Bygdøy Royal Estate, the official summer residence of the King of Norway, and historic Oscarshall are also located nearby.<ref>{{Citation|title=Bygdøy|date=2018-02-20|url=http://snl.no/Bygd%C3%B8y|work=Store norske leksikon|language=no|access-date=2019-02-06}}</ref>
The Fram Museum was inaugurated on 20 May 1936. It honours Norwegian polar exploration in general and three great Norwegian polar explorers in particular – Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Sverdrup and Roald Amundsen. The museum also exhibits images of the fauna of the polar regions, such as polar bears and penguins.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.norwayguide.no/ta/fram.htm |title=''Fram Polar Ship Museum'' (Norway Guide) |access-date=2011-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724181922/http://www.norwayguide.no/ta/fram.htm |archive-date=2011-07-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
The Fram Museum is centred principally on the original exploration vessel ''Fram''. 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.<ref name=Huntford>{{cite book|last=Huntford|first=Roland|title=Nansen|year=1997|publisher=Abacus|location=London|isbn=978-0-349-11492-7|page=750}}</ref><ref>Huntford, pp. 181–184</ref>
In May 2009 the Norwegian Maritime Museum and the Fram Museum signed an agreement for the Fram Museum to take over the exhibition of the ''Gjøa'', the first vessel to transit the Northwest Passage. Roald Amundsen and a crew of six accomplished that feat in a three-year journey which was finished in 1906.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.norway.no/en/usa/|title=Norway in the United States|website=Norgesportalen|language=en|access-date=2019-02-06}}</ref> ''Gjøa'' is situated inside her own dedicated building at the museum. In 2017 the ship was made fully accessible to visitors.
==Gallery== <gallery> File:The_Fram_Museum_in_Oslo,_Norway.jpg|Fram Museum interior after the 2018 modernization File:Gjøa_deck.jpg|From the deck of polar ship ''Gjøa'' File:Fram_engine_room.jpg|Engine room of the polar ship ''Fram'' File:The_Fram_Museum_interior_1st_floor.jpg|Inside the Fram Museum File:Fram_Museum_building,_June_2014.jpg|Fram Museum in the summer </gallery>
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==External links== {{commons category|Fram museum}} *[https://www.frammuseum.no/ Fram Museum Official site]
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Category:Bygdøy Category:Museums in Oslo Category:Maritime museums in Norway Category:Museums established in 1936 Category:1936 establishments in Norway Category:Modernist architecture in Norway Category:Fridtjof Nansen Category:Roald Amundsen