Fram and Kon-Tiki Museums

The Polar Ship Fram Of Nansen And Amundsen, And Thor Heyerdahl'S Balsa Raft Kon Tiki And Reed Boat Ra II, In Two Museums Side By Side · Oslo, Oslo

At the tip of the Bygdoy peninsula in Oslo, two museums face each other across a small car park, and together they tell the story of Norway as a nation of explorers. The Fram Museum is built around the polar ship Fram itself, the wooden schooner that carried Fridtjof Nansen into the Arctic ice (1893-96), Otto Sverdrup to the Canadian Arctic and Roald Amundsen to Antarctica for his South Pole expedition of 1910-12. You walk on its deck and down into the cabins. A second hall holds the Gjoa, the small sloop in which Amundsen made the first voyage through the Northwest Passage. Across the way, the Kon-Tiki Museum shows Thor Heyerdahl's original balsa raft from the 1947 Pacific crossing and the papyrus boat Ra II from 1970, now in a new main exhibition opened in May 2026. The honest caveat: these are two separate tickets, both museums get very crowded with cruise groups at midday in summer, and the famous Viking Ship Museum on the same peninsula is closed until 2027.

Bygdoynesveien, at the tip of the Bygdoy peninsula, Oslo; the two museums face each other, Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Both museums open every day of the year apart from a few holidays (Christmas and New Year - confirm). Pattern: long summer days, roughly 09:00 or 09:30 to 18:00 from about June to August, and shorter hours the rest of the year, roughly 10:00 to 16:00 or 17:00 - confirm on each museum's own site. Get there on bus 30 from central Oslo to the Bygdoynes stop (year round) or on the Bygdoy ferry from the City Hall pier by Aker Brygge (roughly spring to autumn only). No booking needed for individuals; groups book ahead.

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