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Visit the House

The kitchen at 25 Tinakori Road. Photographer: Brett Robertson

The childhood home of New Zealand’s most famous author, provides essential background for the enjoyment and understanding of a large part of Mansfield’s writing. Her memories and experiences here were recreated in her most famous short stories, The Aloe, Prelude, A Birthday, The Doll’s House, and The Wind Blows.

Location
25 Tinakori Road, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand

How to get there

To walk 
The House is a 10 minute walk from Parliament Buildings or Old St Pauls (both stops on the Circular Bus).

By Bus 
No 14 Wilton stops nearby in Park Street

Open:    Six days a week 10.00am - 4.00pm
Closed:  Mondays, Christmas Day and Good Friday (and for private functions)

Admission:  free to KMB Society members
$5.50 Adults
$4.00 Seniors and Students
$2.00 Children
Concessions for Group Tours ( 5 or more persons)

Tourist Facilities

• Translations of House information (Japanese, Chinese, Korean, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese)
• Self tours available
• Minibus parking in driveway
• Tour bus stop in Hobson street
• Tea and coffee available - period teas for groups by arrangement
• Shop with various gift items, and a full range of publications

Videos
See these at the House

• ‘A Portrait of Katherine Mansfield. A Woman and a Writer’ (c. 50 mins).
• ‘The Doll’s House’ (20 mins)
• ‘A Picture of Katherine Mansfield’. BBC 1976. Six part series. (special booking required)

Exhibitions
Permanent and changing exhibitions include:

• 'The Material Mansfield' Katherine Mansfield's clothes and possessions, and new creations by New Zealand designers inspired by her sense of style. (18 February - 4 May 2008.)
• 'The Remembered Places' Katherine Mansfield's Thorndon 1888 - 1908.
• ‘A Sense of Living’ period photographs with excerpts from Mansfield’s writings.
• ‘Restoration of the Birthplace’
• ‘Victorian Christmas’. (December)

The Garden
Enjoy the heritage garden, replanted to the 1880 - 1900 period with flowers and plants available in Wellington at the time.  

Venue hire
A unique and special venue for weddings, garden parties, birthdays, book launches, book groups. Contact the House for more information.