The Nevis Historical and Conservation Society is a nonprofit, non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in the Caribbean island of Nevis, founded in 1980 to protect the cultural and natural heritage of the island. Mission and funding The Society, founded in 1980, is charged with protecting the cultural and natural heritage of the island of Nevis, which is part of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, in the Leeward Islands, West Indies. The stated mission of the society is "Protecting & Promoting the Historical, Cultural and Natural Heritage of Nevis." The organization is funded through local and international memberships, donations, museum admissions and sales, annual fundraising events, and a modest subvention from the Nevis Island Administration. Museums and services The Society maintains three museums on the island, and has instituted projects and policies designed to preserve the island's unique history and environment, and to make that heritage accessible to locals and visitors. Museum of Nevis History The Alexander Hamilton Museum was for many years located in the building known as 'Hamilton House', a stone building on the waterfront near the center of Charlestown, the capital of Nevis. This Georgian building was built on the ruins of an earlier structure, now thought to be a stable that was destroyed by a hurricane in 1840. It now houses the Society's offices and the Museum of Nevis History. The building's upper floor hosts the Nevis Island Government's Legislative Offices, the Nevis Island Assembly. The museum building was long thought to be the house where the American statesman and Founding Father Alexander Hamilton was born and lived during his childhood. In 2019, the NHCS was proud to unveil its new Museum of Nevis History exhibition as Phase 1 of its “Enlivening Nevis Museums” Project. Phase 2 will look at the transformation of the our current “Nelson Museum” into the “Nevis Maritime Museum & Nelson Collection”. Located just south of the museum building is the current site of the Alexander Hamilton Museum. in a wooden building, known locally as the Trott House, after the family that owned the house in recent times. In 2011, the wooden house and land were acquired by the Society. The house was intact, although it needed some repair and restoration before it could be opened to the public in 2018. A wall separating the wooden house from the stone house was removed and the land surrounding the wooden house was landscaped.