The Fram Museum preserves the ship Fram used by Fridtjof Nansen’s Arctic expedition.
Fram was a specially designed wooden polar vessel built in Norway in 1892 for the explorer Fridtjof Nansen. Its rounded hull was intended to rise with the pressure of Arctic sea ice instead of being crushed. Nansen used the ship during his 1893–1896 expedition, allowing it to drift with the pack ice while he attempted to reach the North Pole overland.
Roald Amundsen later used Fram during his 1910–1912 expedition to Antarctica. The ship therefore played a role in both major polar regions. The Fram Museum opened in Oslo in 1936 and displays the vessel in a purpose-built building on Bygdøy.
Fram is sometimes confused with the Kon-Tiki, the raft used by Thor Heyerdahl in 1947. Kon-Tiki has its own museum nearby, but it was not Nansen’s polar ship.