Places to Visit in Upper Hutt

New Zealand's only open air astronomical observatory welcomes you to explore the Universe and rediscover the knowledge of our ancestors. Come visit us for a tour. Stonehenge Aotearoa was created out of a course that Astronomer Richard Hall and Educator Kay Leather taught, called "Mysteries of the Night Sky". Richard and Kay wanted a practical open-sky observatory inspired by, and built on a similar scale, to the famous Stonehenge in England. Stonehenge was built with a grant from MORST administered by the Royal Society and opened by Nobel Laureate and Mastertonian Professor Alan MacDiarmid in February 2005.