{"id":149,"date":"2020-04-17T14:04:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T14:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site99.blogs.americavip.com\/2020\/04\/17\/national-history-museum-of-mauritius\/"},"modified":"2020-04-17T14:04:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T14:04:05","slug":"national-history-museum-of-mauritius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/2020\/04\/17\/national-history-museum-of-mauritius\/","title":{"rendered":"National History Museum of Mauritius"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_132\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-132\" class=\"size-large wp-image-132\" src=\"http:\/\/site99.blogs.americavip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/04\/National-History-Museum-of-Mauritius-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"National History Museum of Mauritius\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/04\/National-History-Museum-of-Mauritius-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/04\/National-History-Museum-of-Mauritius-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/04\/National-History-Museum-of-Mauritius-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/100\/files\/sites\/100\/2020\/04\/National-History-Museum-of-Mauritius.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">National History Museum of Mauritius<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>National History Museum of Mauritius (Royal Road, Mah\u00e9bourg) &#8212;<\/strong> located an hour\u2019s drive (45 km.) southeast of Port Louis, this museum (located at Mah\u00e9bourg on the bank of La Chaux River amidst a luxuriant park of pine trees) is housed in the Gheude Castle, a magnificent French colonial mansion built around 1770. Various facets of the island\u2019s rich history can be seen here, including paintings illustrating the Naval Battle of Grand Port in 1810 between the French and British squadrons, along with tabloids narrating the different phases of the battle. Also, relics from the country\u2019s slavery and indentured (Indian) labor periods are also on display. The Dutch section of the museum was inaugurated by His Highness Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau on 20 September 1998. It was a ceremony to mark the 400th anniversary of the first Dutch landing in Mauritius.<\/p>\n<p>Admission: free. Hours: 9:00 am \u2013 4:00 pm (Monday-Saturday), 9:00 am \u2013 12:00 pm (Sunday &amp; public holidays). Closed on Tuesdays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; National History Museum of Mauritius (Royal Road, Mah\u00e9bourg) &#8212; located an hour\u2019s drive (45 km.) southeast of Port Louis, this museum (located at Mah\u00e9bourg on the bank of La Chaux River amidst a luxuriant park of pine trees) is housed in the Gheude Castle, a magnificent French colonial mansion built around 1770. Various facets [&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-149","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\/149","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=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/contents2.mauritiusvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}