"[1] 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.

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.

A small outdoor café was moved to the southern edge of the property and is popular among locals and visitors alike.

In 1787, Nelson married a young widow who was a Nevis plantation owner's daughter-in-law, Frances (Fanny) Nisbet.

The Bellevue facility also houses the Joan Robinson Biodiversity and Oral History Resource Centre, which was opened on April 22, 2009, and which currently consists of two laboratories.

The Biodiversity and Oral History Projects were jointly funded by The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CIDA), the British High Commission (Barbados); and The Strabon Project (French Embassy, Saint Lucia).

During the process they learn technical and scientific skills from NHCS staff and other experts in a wide variety of disciplines, including but not limited to, archaeology, marine and terrestrial biology, botany, GPS/GIS mapping and surveying techniques, still and video photography, website design and maintenance, video editing and production, and desktop publishing.