The seventh annual Roald Amundsen Memorial Lectures will be
held on 30 November & 1 December 2018.
The Memorial Lectures are held each year during the first weekend of December to commemorate the life and achievements of Roald Amundsen.
The lectures on Saturday will be followed by the recreation of an historical dinner in the museum.

Program Friday 30 November:

17:30 Registration
18:00 Exhibition opening and book launch:
Into the Mists: S.A. Andrée’s Balloon Expedition Towards the North Pole

Reception

20:00 Film: Roald Amundsen – the movie. Norwegian documentary from 1954.
Director: Reidar Lunde. 100 min.
22:00 End

Program Saturday 1 December:

10:00 Geir O. Kløver – Welcome
10:20 Håkan Jorikson: From August to S.A. Andrée – the man behind the expedition
11:20 Break
11:30 Alexander Wisting: Shadowland – Otto Sverdrup’s Struggle
12:30 Lunch in the Gjøa Building
13:30 Meredith Hooper: Playing the Game – Scott’s other heroes
14:30 Break
14:40 Olav Orheim: The secret side of Greenland – some glimpses of military activities from WWII into the Cold War
15:40 Coffee break
16:10 Jan Wangaard: The Return of Maud
17:10 Break
17:20 Motion Blur: Amundsen – from idea to the big screen

18:20 Reception on the deck of Fram

19:00 Recreation of the official dinner served on the evening of Roald Amundsen and his crew members’ return to Kristiania after the South Pole Expedition in 1912. The same 9-course menu and similar wine will be served,
the same speeches will be held and the same music played.