Southern Heritage Trust

Exploring Heritage


	The Northern Cemetery The Northern Cemetery was opened for burials in 1872. The cemetery is one of Dunedin's and New Zealand's oldest and story filled cemeteries.
	The Taieri Gorge Railway The Taieri Gorge Railway is Dunedin's prestige tourist train, taking passengers through the Taieri Gorge to Pukerangi or Middlemarch with a full commentary and photographic stops.
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	Larnach Castle Larnach Castle is New Zealand's only castle, built in 1871 by William Larnach.
	Otago Settlers Museum Otago Settlers Museum is one of New Zealand's finest social history museums.
	Olveston Olveston was gifted to the City of Dunedin in 1967 after being occupied by the Theomin family since it was built, in 1904-6 and celebrated its centenary in 2006. It is a reflection of a priviledged lifestyle in the early 1900s.
	The Dunedin Gas Works Museum The Dunedin Gas Works Museum preserves part of the Dunedin City Gasworks, which operated from 1863 until 1987. The museum explains how gas was made from coal, and vintage steam engines on their original site in the Engine House can be seen in operation. It is one of only three operational gasworks museums in the world. The museum is open on the first Sunday of each month from 12:00pm until 4:00pm.
	Regional Maritime Museum Standing at the harbour gateway to Otago, the Regional Maritime Museum, Port Chalmers is the maritime and social history museum for Port Chalmers, West Harbour and the Otago coast.

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EVENT OF THE MONTH The Event of the Month for September will be the Savoy Afternoon Tea on Wednesday 8 September, which will be a Celebration of Spring. There is no Special Event in August.

Southern Heritage Sites: Otago Trails

This website offers a number of carefully designed themed trails which will allow you to explore selected aspects of heritage throughout Otago or simply to investigate the heritage of a particular locality.; Northern Cemetery

This website brings together information from many different research sources to offer you a unique view of one of New Zealand's most interesting cemeteries.
The cemetery remembers many of Dunedin's and New Zealand's early settlers and founding residents, such as entrepreneur William Larnach, Charles Speight and Poet, Legislator and Journalist Thomas Bracken.; Dunedin Gasworks Museum

"The Dunedin Gas Works Museum is one of only three preserved gasworks in the world, and by far the best and most complete", says Sir Neil Cossons, former Chairman of English Heritage and a noted authority on the history of industrial archaeology, museums and conservation. The Dunedin Gasworks Museum is important as the only surviving and preserved example of a city gasworks where the process is explained and the equipment demonstrated.