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Natural History Museum, Port Louis

museum in Port Louis, Mauritius

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ110288946 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Natural History Museum is a museum in Port Louis, Mauritius.

History

The museum is the oldest in Mauritius. The museum building was constructed in 1880. 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.

Architecture

The museum is located at the ground floor of Mauritius Institute building. It consists of Fauna Gallery, Marine Life Gallery, Insects, Meteorology, Giant Tortoise Gallery and The World of the Dodo.

Exhibitions

The museum exhibits various replica of fauna and flora.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Natural History Museum, Port Louis” is museum in Port Louis, Mauritius. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Natural, History and Museum, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1880, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Natural, History and Museum is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “museum in Port Louis, Mauritius” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q110288946. Authority coordinates are -20.163, 57.502. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1880 and 2021.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Natural History Museum, Port Louis”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Natural History Museum, Port Louis primary sources, Natural History Museum, Port Louis archive and Natural research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Natural History Museum, Port Louis”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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This entry incorporates text from “Natural History Museum, Port Louis” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.