wife of the serving governor Sir William Lamond Allardyce, advocated to create a collection of exhibits of the colony's history.

[3] The "collection of curiosities" was housed in the old Infant School and displayed a wide range of items (some with no Falklands connection whatsoever) including hair from a prehistoric Mylodon found in a cave in South America and donated by the Minister of Russia to Chile; a collection of local birds eggs; stones from the stomach of a sea lion; and a fossilized shell.

[3] The museum moved to the ground floor of the Town Hall and continued to enlarge its natural history collection.

After the end of the occupation, the house was given its new name and was used by various Commanders of British Forces in the Falklands until Mount Pleasant Airport was completed in 1985 and the garrison moved out of Stanley.

[2] In August 2020, members of the Legislative Assembly of Falkland Islands approved a loan facility to the museum.