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===Museums=== [[File:Blue Penny Museum.JPG|thumb|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. The [[Natural History Museum, Port Louis|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 stone building that dates to the 18th century, and houses displays of stamps and postal paraphernalia from Mauritius and around the world. The Mauritius Photography Museum, located in a small 18th-century white-washed French colonial building, is a private museum that displays artifacts and documents about Mauritian photography and the early days of cinematography. [[File:Intercontinental Slavey Museum Mauritius, Ex-Military Hospital Building, Port-Louis, 2025.jpg|thumb|The [[:fr:Musée Intercontinental de l'Esclavage|Intercontinental Slavery Museum]]]] Located in the Ex-Military Hospital, the [[:fr:Musée Intercontinental de l'Esclavage|Intercontinental Slavery Museum]] deals with the history of the slave trade, slavery and indentured labour. It also houses a documentation centre. The [[Aapravasi Ghat]] is the remains of the immigration depot that was built by the British Government to import labourers from India, Eastern Africa, Madagascar, China, and Southeast Asia to work on the island's sugar estates. Although not a museum in a traditional sense, the [[National Library of Mauritius]] houses a rich and comprehensive collection of material related to Mauritius history, including manuscripts, books, newspapers, periodicals, music scores, photographs, maps, drawings, and other graphic art forms and audiovisual materials, in addition to providing the traditional services of a library to residents of the city and nation. [[File:Port Louis, Mauritius, Natural History Museum.jpg|thumb|Port Louis, Mauritius, Natural History Museum]]
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