List Of Museums In Mauritius
This is a list of museums in Mauritius. List * 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 Postal Museum * Château de Labourdonnais * Eureka House See also * Mahatma Gandhi Institute * Mauritius Museums Council * List of museums External links Museums in Mauritius() {{Africa topic, List of museums in Mauritius Museums Museums Mauritius Museums A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

Mauritius
Mauritius ( ; french: Maurice, link=no ; mfe, label=Mauritian Creole, Moris ), officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean about off the southeast coast of the African continent, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Agaléga and St. Brandon. The islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues, along with nearby Réunion (a French overseas department), are part of the Mascarene Islands. The main island of Mauritius, where most of the population is concentrated, hosts the capital and largest city, Port Louis. The country spans and has an exclusive economic zone covering . Arab sailors were the first to discover the uninhabited island, around 975, and they called it ''Dina Arobi''. The earliest discovery was in 1507 by Portuguese sailors, who otherwise took little interest in the islands. The Dutch took possession in 1598, establishing a succession of short-lived settlements over a period of about ...
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