The Fram Museum
Polar exploration museum built around a wooden expedition ship that visitors can board.
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This guide to the Fram Museum in Oslo begins at a shipyard in Larvik in October 1892, on the day a polar ship was given her name. It follows Eva Nansen and her husband Fridtjof, the explorer, and the curious contradiction between that one-word name and the rounded hull he designed with the shipbuilder Colin Archer. Best heard standing beside the hull, before you climb aboard.
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