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Exciting Changes Ahead: Limited Services Due to Relocation

We are going to be relocating our collection to a state-of-the-art, purpose-built facility in 2025.

To achieve this, we must reduce some of the services we offer to the public.

  • There is now a hold on all outgoing loans and new acquisitions/donations to the collection.
  • From mid-October 2023, we will be reducing the capacity for collection store visits. Responses to enquiries and image reproductions will be slower. Appointments for the reading room will be limited.
  • From October 2024 these services will stop until we re-open in the new facility, estimated end of 2025.

The reduction in services we offer will allow our staff to focus fully on making sure every item is correctly prepared for the big move. Thank you for understanding and we look forward to working with you again as soon as we can.

The Collection

MTG Hawke’s Bay cares for approximately 90,000 objects in its collections that have been developed since 1856 and are governed by the Hawke’s Bay Museums Trust (see the Charities Registration website and the constitution and rules of the Trust). The collection includes objects relating to the history of Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand and the world.

MTG Hawke’s Bay archive reading room and collection services are open by appointment only. Please feel free to get in touch...

Reading Room Archives archive@mtghawkesbay.com or +64 6 834 9837

Collection Visits collections@mtghawkesbay.com or +64 6 833 9870 

Alternatively, you can fill out a booking form to make an appointment to visit.

If you would like to order images, you can fill out an order form here.

For further information please call us on +64 6 835 7781 or email info@mtghawkesbay.com

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