Last updated: 2 June 2009
Nelson Institute
What is it?
Title:
Nelson Institute
Creator:
Nelson Institute
Held at:
Level of description:
Collection
Extent:
10 folders ; 2 v.
Reference number:
AG 304
Former NRAM reference number:
Y3842
Description:
The Nelson Literary & Scientific Institution was formed at a meeting of the Officers on board the "Whitby" on 17 May 1841, on their way to Nelson.
The first premises were opened in September 1842 on part of town acre 445, Trafalgar Street (site occupied by Eelco's in 2002). Land in Hardy Street was granted for a site in Hardy Street in 1859. A new Institute building was opened in 1911 on the same site after the first building was destroyed by fire 6 years earlier.
In 1965, the Nelson Institute was dissolved. Nelson City Council took over all the assets of Nelson Public Library. Nelson Provincial Museum Trust Board took over the running of the museum (1963).
Records comprise loose minutes of committee and annual general meetings, 2 scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings, correspondence, 6 folders of papers on various topics including legal matters, adult education, town planning submissions, sample letterhead and rules of the Institute.
Records
Dates covered:
1962 - 1984
Access conditions:
Not restricted
Finding aids:
Descriptive inventory
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Places:
Nelson · Tasman
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