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The collection includes Nelson's naval officers fighting sword (and those of the surrendered French and Spanish naval commanders at Trafalgar); letters from Nelson both to his wife and to
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announced that the museum would not reopen in its Market Hall location and that the collections would be relocated to the
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The museum has been located at three separate sites within the town. In 1891 Lady Llangattock established a gymnasium in
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of the Market Hall, the site was refurbished and redesigned. The museum re-opened at the Market Hall and was termed
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in 1923. Lady Llangattock, wife of the local landowner and town benefactor,
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The Nelson collection was a bequest to the town of Monmouth on the death of
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memorabilia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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For the Nelson Museum in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, United Kingdom, see
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Nelson's letters to his wife: and other documents, 1785-1831
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career and his visit with the Hamiltons to Monmouth town,
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In June 2021, while the museum was closed during the
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announced plans to move the museum collection to the
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Index

Norfolk Nelson Museum

Market Hall
Monmouth
Wales
Coordinates
51°48′47″N 2°42′56″W / 51.8131°N 2.7156°W / 51.8131; -2.7156
Monmouth
Monmouthshire
Wales
Admiral Horatio Nelson
Market Hall
COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
Monmouthshire County Council
Shire Hall
Agincourt Square
National Lottery Heritage Fund
Lady Georgiana Llangattock
John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock
Charles Rolls
Admiral Horatio Nelson
Lady Hamilton
Royal Navy
The Kymin
South Wales
silverware
glassware
Battle of Trafalgar
fakes
archaeology

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