Fridtjof nansen 1889
Photo: Jan Dalsgaard Sørensen

Portrait, 1889
By L. Szacinski, Christiania's leading photographer at the time and photographer to the Royal Court. It was only natural that he should also be photographer to the Nansen family.
The large portrait hanging at Polhøgda is dated 1896, but was actually taken in 1889, upon Nansen's return from Greenland.

Portrait, 1893
Nansen ready for his great North Pole expedition.
Drawing by Nansen's life-long friend Erik Werenskiold.

Fram expedition
Nansen's boots and knife, used during the 1893–96 Fram expedition in the Arctic Sea. The boots are on loan from the Fram Museum, the knife has been donated by Norwegian actor Knut Wigert, who portrayed Nansen in a 1968 movie.

Return from the Arctic
After his miraculous rescue in 1896, Nansen travelled down the Norwegian coast, receiving a hero's welcome at every port. Here he is seen on board Sir George Baden-Powell's yacht Otaria, heading south towards Tromsø. Nansen's wife Eva has come north to join him.

The heroes of Fram
A memorial plaque to the participants of the Norwegian North Pole Expedition 1893–1896.

Portrait, 1897
By London photographer Henry van der Weyde, taken in 1897, a few months after the return of the Fram expedition.

Bathymetrical Chart of Northern Polar Seas
by Dr Fridtjof Nansen
Throughout the Fram expedition, Nansen kept the crew busy carrying out scientific measurements, including ocean depth soundings. This bathymetrical map of the Arctic Ocean was one of many scientific results published after their return.

Scientific work
Nansen spent years going through the scientific results of the Fram expedition, before publishing them in the 6-volume The Norwegian North Polar Expedition 1893-1896: Scientific results edited by Fridtjof Nansen, issued 1900-1906. This map showing Fram's progress through the Kara Sea is one of several preliminary versions, with numerous handwritten corrections and comments by Nansen.