L'Aventure du Sucre
A museum housed in a converted old sugar factory, telling the story of how sugarcane, slavery, and indentured labor shaped Mauritius. Visitors can taste local sugars and rum.
Located at the former Beau Plan sugar factory in Pamplemousses, the museum preserves large sugar-processing machinery. Its exhibits use vivid text, images, and multimedia to explain sugarcane cultivation and sugar production, and how slavery and indentured labor shaped Mauritius's multicultural society. At the end of the visit, you can taste more than ten kinds of unrefined specialty sugars and local rum for free, and buy them in the shop. The on-site Le Fangourin restaurant has good reviews. Admission costs about 500 rupees, and it is open daily from about 09:00 to 17:00. It is about 5 minutes' drive from Pamplemousses Botanical Garden, so the two are easy to combine in one morning.
Opening hours
09:00–17:00
Nearby sights
- Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden
- Château de Labourdonnais
- Grand Baie
- Fort Adelaide (La Citadelle)
- Aapravasi Ghat
- Port Louis Central Market
- Le Caudan Waterfront
- Cap Malheureux