Heritage and Visitor Centre

OPEN 10am - 4pm MONDAY to SATURDAYS
HERITAGE AND VISITORS' CENTRE (Moray Hall)

Summer Times September- may 10.00am- 4.00pm
Winter Times: June- August 10.30am - 2.30 pm

To commemorate the role and importance of First Church of Otago in the establishment and development of Dunedin a Heritage and Visitors' Centre was set up in Moray Hall as an ongoing testimony to the past and the present.

To discover the history at the heart of Dunedin, visitors are urged to visit the Centre when it is open. You will enjoy the pictorial displays, details about Thomas Burns and others, ship passenger lists, other registers the story of Bell Hill and more postcards and other mementos are available.

1848 marked the beginning of Dunedin as a Free Church of Scotland (Presbyterian) settlement. The early settlers formed the beginning
congregation or First Church of Otago with The Reverend Thomas Burns as their Minister.

In 1998 First Church of Otago and Dunedin celebrated 150 years of
settlement. 1998 also marked 125 years since the opening of this fine church in November 1873.