Katherine Mansfield's Birthplace
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp is undoubtedly New Zealand's most famous author and one of the world's best-known short story writers. Visit her birthplace in Thorndon and step back into Victorian New Zealand in the late 1880s. Nestled on historic Tinakori Road, the exquisitely restored house and the heritage garden provide an excellent background to Mansfield's writing and give a unique opportunity to experience New Zealand society of the time.

25 Tinakori Road, Thorndon
Tel: (04) 473 7268.
Website: www.katherinemansfield.com
Admission charge.

National Tattoo Museum
A look at the rich history of the ‘Tattoo' or ‘Ta Moko', traditional and contemporary tattoo practices; and the spiritual, political and symbolic dimensions of body art throughout the Pacific, Asia and wider, and more recently, fashionable body adornment practices.

42 Ablesmith Street
Tel: (04) 385 6444.
Website: www.mokomuseum.org.nz
Admission charge.

National Cricket Museum
This small museum houses a wealth of national cricket mementoes and memorabilia, including costumes and textiles, pictures and photographs, ephemera (programmes, postcards and cricket balls), trophies etc. The museum also has a research and lending library with an extensive range of cricket books.

The Old Grandstand, Basin Reserve
Tel: (04) 385 6602.
Admission charge.