Dunedin Gasworks Museum
Dunedin Gasworks Museum is located in South Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. It is one of only a few known preserved gasworks museums in the world.
The main part of the museum is housed in the engine house of the former Dunedin
The Dunedin Gasworks were the first in New Zealand and also the last to cease production. At its peak in the 1970s coal gas was provided to over 18,000 customers in the city. The Edwardian buildings of the gasworks were saved by a trust headed by Elizabeth Hinds, Director of the
Much of Dunedin's gasworks facility was pulled down during the 1980s. The idea of restoring the remaining part of the complex into a museum was mooted during the latter part of the decade, with the first work on structural restoration of the buildings beginning in 1989. The museum was opened on 3 February 2001 in a ceremony attended by Dr. George Emerson, Chair of the Dunedin Gasworks Museum Trust, and Sir Neil Cossons, Chairman of English Heritage.[1]
References
- ^ a b Dunedin City Council gasworks museum webpage
- ^ "Gasworks Exhauster and Boiler House". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand.
- ^ "Fitting Shop (Smithy or Purifier House)". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand.
- ^ "Gasholder of 1879". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand.
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