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The museum is the oldest in Mauritius. The museum building was constructed in 1880. [1] On 22 December 2021, Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth inaugurated the Mauritian Ex-Servicemen's World War I and World War II Tribute Gallery inside the museum. [2]
Mauritius Postal Museum; N. Natural History Museum, Port Louis This page was last edited on 27 April 2020, at 01:28 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Blue Penny Museum. The Blue Penny Museum a museum dedicated to history and art of Mauritius, is situated at Caudan Waterfront in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius. It opened in November 2001. [1] The museum collection includes the 1847 Blue Penny and Red Penny stamps.
[26] [27] [28] In 2011, the museum was the 13th most visited museum in the Netherlands. [29] In 2012, when the museum closed for renovation on 1 April, it received 45,981 visitors. [30] The museum was closed all of 2013 and was reopened on 27 June 2014. [16] [31] It closed for three months in the spring of 2020 in response to the Covid epidemic ...
The postal museum, [3] opened in 2001, displays exhibits on the island's postal and telecommunications history. However, the world-famous Red and Blue "Post Office" Mauritius stamps are not exhibited here, but in the nearby Blue Penny Museum .
When the Dutch abandoned Mauritius in 1710, they destroyed the fort. The island was claimed by the French in 1715, who settled in Vieux Grand Port in 1722, but later moved their administration to Port Louis. After 1753 they built on top of the ruins of Fort Frederik Henrik. [1] Today the site is the Frederik Hendrik Museum.
The known and sometimes formally documented history of Mauritius begins with its possible discovery by Austronesians (not documented) under the Austronesian expansion from pre-Han Taiwan, circa 1500 to 1000 BC, and then by Arabs, (documented on Portuguese maps), followed by Portuguese and its appearance on European maps in the early 16th century.