{"id":3744,"date":"2021-05-24T09:24:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T09:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goc2020.govmu.org\/mmc_20210703\/?post_type=news&#038;p=3744"},"modified":"2021-06-11T06:09:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T06:09:25","slug":"national-day-celebration-2021","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/mauritiusmuseums.govmu.org\/mauritiusmuseums\/?news=national-day-celebration-2021","title":{"rendered":"National Day Celebration 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To mark the National Day Celebration 2021, the Mauritius Museums Council in collaboration with Flacq Coeur de Ville mounted an exibition entltled&nbsp;<strong>&#8221; The Peopling of Mauritius&#8221;<\/strong>. The exibition is opened to the public from 4 March till 31 May 2021 at Super U, Flacq Coeur de Ville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Republic of Mauritius has been created by immigrants.&nbsp;&nbsp;Its peopling has always been characterised by diversity.&nbsp;&nbsp;European settlers from Holland, France and Britain, intent on building entrep\u00f4ts and empires, introduced workers, companions, servants and slaves from far-flung possessions and trading routes to the Indies, resulting in the mosaic of ethnic groups which has remained one of the hallmarks of this island nation.&nbsp;&nbsp;As Mauritius was transformed from a port of call into a thriving sugar exporter, traders and other service migrants from Asia and from Europe arrived to enrich the commercial life of the region.&nbsp;&nbsp;Through the ebb and flow of prosperity, new citizens continue to add further dimensions to the peopling of the Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/goc2020.govmu.org\/mmc_20210703\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/National-Day-Celebration-2021-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3745\" width=\"510\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mauritiusmuseums.govmu.org\/mauritiusmuseums\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/National-Day-Celebration-2021-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mauritiusmuseums.govmu.org\/mauritiusmuseums\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/National-Day-Celebration-2021-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mauritiusmuseums.govmu.org\/mauritiusmuseums\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/National-Day-Celebration-2021-1-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/goc2020.govmu.org\/mmc_20210703\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/National-Day-Celebration-2021-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3746\" width=\"510\" height=\"378\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the National Day Celebration 2021, the Mauritius Museums Council in collaboration with Flacq Coeur de Ville mounted an exibition entltled&nbsp;&#8221; The Peopling of Mauritius&#8221;. The exibition is opened to the public from 4 March till 31 May 2021 at Super U, Flacq Coeur de Ville. The Republic of Mauritius has been created by &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mauritiusmuseums.govmu.org\/mauritiusmuseums\/?news=national-day-celebration-2021\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">National Day Celebration 2021<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"news-category":[59],"class_list":["post-3744","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauritiusmuseums.govmu.org\/mauritiusmuseums\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/news\/3744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauritiusmuseums.govmu.org\/mauritiusmuseums\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauritiusmuseums.govmu.org\/mauritiusmuseums\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauritiusmuseums.govmu.org\/mauritiusmuseums\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauritiusmuseums.govmu.org\/mauritiusmuseums\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/news\/3744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauritiusmuseums.govmu.org\/mauritiusmuseums\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauritiusmuseums.govmu.org\/mauritiusmuseums\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3744"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauritiusmuseums.govmu.org\/mauritiusmuseums\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fnews-category&post=3744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}