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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.
The building hosting the Blue Penny Museum was the former Docks office. The appellations of the different wings of the complex are indeed reminiscent of episodes of the country's colonial history: • The main building, known as Barkly Wharf, was named after Sir Henry Barkly , Member of Parliament of the British government and appointed ...
Blue Penny Museum; Folk Museum of Indian Immigration; Frederik Hendrik Museum; Musée de la Photographie; National History Museum, Mahebourg; Natural History Museum, Port Louis; Robert Edward Hart Memorial Museum; Sookdeo Bissoondoyal Memorial Museum; Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Memorial Centre for Culture; Peopling of Mauritius Museum; Mauritius ...
Blue Penny Museum. The Blue Penny Museum is located at the Caudan Waterfront, and is dedicated to the history and art of the island. Its collection includes antique marine maps, paintings, sculptures, engravings, and stamps, including examples of the famous orange-red one penny and deep blue two-pence stamps.
One of the "Post Office" stamps is the MacGuffin in a 1962 episode of The Avengers titled "The Mauritius Penny". [28] Theresa Rebeck's play Mauritius is about two sisters who inherit a stamp collection perhaps worth a fortune, which includes both the deep blue two penny and the orange one penny "Post Office" stamps (to which the title refers).
Blue Penny Museum; M. Mauritius Postal Museum; N. Natural History Museum, Port Louis This page was last edited on 27 April 2020, at 01:28 (UTC). ...
Aerial view of Port Louis Panoramic view of Port Louis. Port Louis (capital city) Anse aux Anglais; Baie du Tombeau ... Blue Penny Museum; Curepipe Botanic Gardens;
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 .