Museum
Napier Prison
11 locals recommend
Permanently closed
Location
55 Coote Rd
Napier, Hawke's Bay
Tips from locals
If you love a good scare this is the place. Explore where some of New Zealand's most notorious criminals were locked up and put to death!
Connect with Napier Prison and make our stories part of your life’s journey. Napier Prison remains a popular tourist attraction in Hawke’s Bay, offering visitors a special chance to experience a taste of New Zealand’s history. Whether you choose to enter one of Napier Prison’s physical escape rooms or you don a headset for our virtual reality escape experience. You won’t find a more unique setting within which to experience the exhilaration of an escape challenge.
Connect with Napier Prison and make our stories part of your life’s journey. Napier Prison remains a popular tourist attraction in Hawke’s Bay, offering visitors a special chance to experience a taste of New Zealand’s history. Whether you choose to enter one of Napier Prison’s physical escape rooms…
self guided tour that describes the life of inmates at the prison until its closure in 1994.
Napier Prison was a prison in Napier, New Zealand's oldest prison. It is now an historic facility, which offers guided day and night tours by appointment and self-guided audio tours all day. It is also the only building where it is possible to see the original path of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake