🏛️ Museum
Museum of Nevis History
Alexander Hamilton was born on this spot, and the island museum now fills the rebuilt house.
Typical duration
60 min
Price
About EC$27, roughly US$10, cash (≈ €3.4–9.2 / $3.7–10)
From port
0.5 km / 0.3 mi
Transfer time
6 min
Indoor / Outdoor
indoor
Queue risk
low
🕐 Best time to visit
Morning; it closes at noon on Saturdays and all day Sunday
The Museum of Nevis History occupies the rebuilt Georgian house on the waterfront where Alexander Hamilton was born in 1755 or 1757, depending on which record you believe, to a Nevisian mother and a Scottish father who never married. The ground floor is given over to Hamilton, from the hurricane letter that got him sent to America to his death on the duelling ground at Weehawken. Upstairs the collection widens into Amerindian artefacts, sugar and slavery, and the island's road to independence. It costs about EC$27, the building is small and it takes half an hour, but it is the best-curated room in the country and it is six minutes from the tender.
Getting there from the port
Six minutes on foot north from the pier, on the corner of Main Street and Samuel Hunkins Drive