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Introductory Tour.  This short (30-40mins), tour outlines the development of Karori Cemetery since the first burial in August 1891, traversing the earliest burial areas which contain many interesting memorials and monuments. This tour is free. To book, please visit our ticketing website: https://events.humanitix.com/friends-of-karori-cemetery-wellington-heritage-week-introduction-to-karori-cemetery-tour-3 Our tour has a maximum capacity of about 15 persons. If there are...

Apologies but this tour is now sold out. Karori Cemetery is the final resting place for people whose lives ended tragically – from drowning, from murder, and from accidents of all kinds. This tour includes the story of three militia men killed in a guncotton explosion; an attempted murder followed by suicide; a drowning or...

Apologies but this tour has now sold out. Please visit our Events page for other upcoming tours. Tour through a very atmospheric part of the cemetery, with an eclectic mix of stories on an artist, photographer, hat manufacturer, prison reformer and many more! Come and enjoy the beauty of one of the most mystical places...

This short (30-40min), free, tour outlines the development of Karori Cemetery since the first burial in August 1891, traversing the earliest burial areas which contain many interesting memorials and monuments....

Find out who is in and who is out of some of Karori cemetery’s most substantial dwellings. Note: tours do not enter vaults or try them out for size. The tour duration is 1 hour 45mins. This tour is suitable for people with moderate fitness. The route mostly follows paved surfaces but there are some areas of unevenness....

Apologies this tour is now sold out.   On the 12 February 1909, the SS Penguin sank in Cook Strait in a raging southerly storm with the loss of 72 lives, one of the worst maritime disasters in NZ history. Many of those who died were woman and children, as their lifeboats capsized in the...

Apologies but this tour has now sold out. To be notified of when we make tours available, please follow us on Humanitix. https://events.humanitix.com/host/62dcc703173dab0b2ae6e360 In total, 85 people have been executed for crime in New Zealand with the first in 1842 and the last in 1957. Seventeen of those men were executed in Wellington and 11...

Hear about a poet, a writer, soldiers and stories of Wellington history. Further Catholic Tales tells the stories of the wide range of people interred in the section known as Catholic 2. The tour duration is 1 hour 30mins. The tour mostly follows paved surfaces but there are some areas of unevenness. Each tour is $10 per person...

Apologies but this tour is now sold out. In total, 85 people have been executed for crime in New Zealand with the first in 1842 and the last in 1957. Seventeen of those men were executed in Wellington and 11 are buried in Karori Cemetery.  This walking tour will visit some of their graves to account...

Apologies but this tour has now sold out. Karori Cemetery is the final resting place for people whose lives ended tragically – from drowning, from murder, and from accidents of all kinds. This tour includes the story of three militia men killed in a guncotton explosion; an attempted murder followed by suicide; a drowning or...

Stretch your legs on this tour! Off the Beaten Track takes you off the main road, exploring a bit further into the older sections of Karori Cemetery. We walk up and down the hills, through the gullies and alongside the creek to discover some interesting characters and some of the history of the cemetery as...