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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 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 Mauritius Postal Museum is the Postal ... and it took another two years to complete the building project. The construction cost between £10,000 and £11,000 and ...
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 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.
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 Natural History Museum of Port Louis houses exhibits of the impressive fauna of Mauritius, with a gallery devoted to birds and terrestrial animals, a second focusing on marine species, and a third focused on the dodo, the famous Mauritian bird which became extinct during the Dutch occupation. The Mauritius Postal Museum is housed in an old ...
Mauritius accepted the convention on September 19, 1995, making its sites eligible for inclusion on the list. [2] As of 2024, Mauritius has two World Heritage Sites. [2] Aapravasi Ghat was inscribed on the list at the 30th Session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 2006. Le Morne Brabant was added to the list in 2008.