Blue Penny Museum

Blue Penny Museum

The Blue Penny Museum is a stamp museum at Caudan Waterfront in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius. It opened in November 2001.

The museum collection includes the 1847 Blue Penny and Red Penny stamps. The stamps were bought for €600,000 by a consortium of Mauritian enterprises and brought back to Mauritius after almost two centuries. For conservation, the originals are illuminated only temporarily. Most of the time only copies are to be seen.

The museum, created by the Mauritius Commercial Bank, also houses the original statue of Paul and Virginia, produced at the beginning of the 19th century by Adrien d' Epinay.

External links

* [http://bluepennymuseum.intnet.mu/ Museum website]
* [http://www.stampsmauritius.com/Museums.htm Mauritius museums information]
* [http://redpenny.free.fr/ Photos de timbres anciens de l'ile maurice]
* [http://www.encyclopedia.mu/Society/Communication/Stamps/Museums.htm "Philatelic Museums", "Encyclopaedia Mauritiana."]


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