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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 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.
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 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 ...
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Port Louis on the island of Mauritius This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .