{"id":123,"date":"2020-04-17T13:46:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site99.blogs.americavip.com\/2020\/04\/17\/mauritius-natural-history-museum\/"},"modified":"2020-04-17T13:46:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:46:31","slug":"mauritius-natural-history-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/2020\/04\/17\/mauritius-natural-history-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauritius Natural History Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_112\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112\" class=\"size-large wp-image-112\" src=\"http:\/\/site99.blogs.americavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/04\/Mauritius-Natural-History-Museum-1024x649.jpg\" alt=\"Mauritius Natural History Museum\" width=\"1024\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/04\/Mauritius-Natural-History-Museum-1024x649.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/04\/Mauritius-Natural-History-Museum-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/04\/Mauritius-Natural-History-Museum-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/04\/Mauritius-Natural-History-Museum.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mauritius Natural History M<strong>useum<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Mauritius Natural History Museum (Mauritius Institute Building, Chauss\u00e9e, Port Louis) &#8212;<\/strong> exhibits collections comprised of marine fauna and birds of Mauritius and the Mascarene Islands. It also has an Insects, Meteorology and Giant Tortoise gallery \u2013 presenting the last 500 years of the island\u2019s natural history.. The World of the Dodo section is an interesting place to learn more about this extinct bird which was endemic to Mauritius. Admission: free. Hours: 9:00 am \u2013 4:00 pm (Monday \u2013 Friday), 9:00 \u2013 12:00 pm (Saturday). Closed on Wednesdays, Sundays, and public holidays.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mauritius Natural History Museum (Mauritius Institute Building, Chauss\u00e9e, Port Louis) &#8212; exhibits collections comprised of marine fauna and birds of Mauritius and the Mascarene Islands. It also has an Insects, Meteorology and Giant Tortoise gallery \u2013 presenting the last 500 years of the island\u2019s natural history.. The World of the Dodo section is an interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mauritius-en","category-museums-monuments-other-sites","category-things-to-see-and-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}