The Museum is one of only three known preserved gasworks museums in the world and exhibits unique collections of working gas and steam technology. The late Dr George Emerson, Chair of Dunedin Gasworks Museum Trust, and Sir Neil Cossons, then Chairman of English Heritage and Chief Executive of the renowned National Museum of Science and Industry in London, officially launched the Museum in a special ceremony.

Following the closure of the gas-making plant, the site was largely cleared. But thanks to the vision and determination of the late Elizabeth Hinds, then Director of the Otago Early Settlers Museum, a Trust was formed to save a group of Edwardian buildings at the South Dunedin landmark. Complete with machinery, the conserved Engine House Dunedin Gasworks Museum features a boiler house, fitting shop and steam engines all in working order. [credit:DCC Website]