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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 ...
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. [4]
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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.
The museum collection includes the 1847 Blue Penny and Red Penny stamps. The stamps were bought in 1993 for $2,000,000 by a consortium of Mauritian enterprises headed by The Mauritius Commercial Bank and brought back to Mauritius after almost 150 years. [1] For conservation, the originals are illuminated only temporarily.
The Mahatma Gandhi Institute (commonly known as MGI), located in Moka on the island of Mauritius, [2] is an educational institution focused of secondary, tertiary and pre-vocational education. It also promotes and facilitates research and preservation of cultural heritage and arts.
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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.