Welcome to our award-winning museum, home of the region's taonga and other treasures.
As always the safety and wellbeing of our visitors, team members and community is our top priority. We’re taking all necessary precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19. This includes mandatory QR code scanning, wearing of face masks, restriction on numbers in certain areas, cashless transactions, social distancing protocols, as well as robust cleaning processes. Currently MTG Hawke’s Bay is open to vaccinated and non-vaccinated visitors until further information is outlined by the Government. Any tickets purchased for an event affected by a change in Covid levels will be refunded.
The Century Theatre, built in 1977 as a concert chamber to commemorate Napier’s first century as a city, is the setting for the museum's performing arts, film and talks programme. The Theatre bar opens one hour before every show and sells a range of confectionery, alcohol and non-alcoholic beverages.
Ki Uta, Ki Tai
Atareta Rerekohu Black
Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa, Ngāti Ruapani, Ngai Tūhoe,
Tā Imi Moriori
Atareta Rerekohu Black came to Te Matau a Maui to complete research for Ki Uta, Ki Tai. While she was here, she visited the Hawke’s Bay Museum Trust’s collection, getting up...
Date: Sunday 2 October to Friday 17 March
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A muscular piece of poetry.
The searing and sensual romance of Elizabeth and Tom. Dark secrets, deep passions, and heart-breaking truths bubble over as lovers savour precious moments together. Set in twentieth-century Canterbury farming heartland, the text remains deeply resonant with striking...
Date: Tuesday 18 October
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A world premiere of thoughtfully curated songs, more than 30 years in the making, award-winning musician Teremoana Rapley performs her long-awaited, full-length debut album Daughter of a Housegirl.
Bass-heavy beats and sweet flamenco-inspired folk tunes are overlaid with vibrations and...
Date: Friday 21 October
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Douglas Lloyd Jenkins’ first novel is an intense love story and a love song to Auckland’s vanishing past, depicting the myriad complexities of male relationships, the possibilities offered by chance encounters and the exquisite beauty of friendship - and a home - found in unexpected places....
Date: Saturday 22 October
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
While receiving treatment for prostate cancer, writer Peter Wells – an intensely private person – reached out to the world via Facebook, where he examined his life as he also contemplated the end of it. Peter’s posts were collated and published under the title Hello Darkness.
Now,...
Date: Saturday 22 October
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Join us for a Sunday afternoon of classics, kicking off with Casablanca at 1pm.
During WWII, Rick, a nightclub owner in Casablanca, agrees to help his former lover Ilsa and her husband. Soon, Ilsa's feelings for Rick resurface and she finds herself renewing her love for him.
PG 1h 42m
The...
Date: Sunday 23 October
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Join us for a Sunday afternoon of classics, kicking off with Casablanca at 1pm, followed by Another Mother's Son at 3.30pm.
On the Nazi-occupied island of Jersey during World War II, grieving Louisa Gould finds a new outlet for her maternal love when she takes in an escaped Russian prisoner of...
Date: Sunday 23 October
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Join us for a Sunday afternoon of classics, kicking off with Casablanca at 1pm, followed by Another Mother's Son at 3.30pm and Benediction at 6pm.
Decorated for bravery during World War I, British soldier Siegfried Sassoon returns from service and becomes a vocal critic of the government's...
Date: Sunday 23 October
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
It’s 1998. Otto is twelve but online he’s thirteen and he’s pretty sure he gets away with it. He lives in an old wooden house with his mum, dad, and sister, a mysterious Icelandic granny, and an ancient malevolent troll that's lurking in the walls...
From internationally acclaimed Trick...
Date: Saturday 29 October
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Ki Uta, Ki Tai
Atareta Rerekohu Black
Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa, Ngāti Ruapani, Ngai Tūhoe,
Tā Imi Moriori
Atareta Rerekohu Black came to Te Matau a Maui to complete research for Ki Uta, Ki Tai. While she was here, she visited the Hawke’s Bay Museum Trust’s collection, getting up...
Date: Sunday 2 October to Friday 17 March
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Enjoy a variety of highlights from this year’s Show Me Shorts Film Festival.
These are some of the most cinematic short films that will make you laugh, gasp or think more deeply about our world and the people in it. It’s all about the connections between us. Sometimes things go haywire,...
Date: Saturday 5 November
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Ki Uta, Ki Tai
Atareta Rerekohu Black
Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa, Ngāti Ruapani, Ngai Tūhoe,
Tā Imi Moriori
Atareta Rerekohu Black came to Te Matau a Maui to complete research for Ki Uta, Ki Tai. While she was here, she visited the Hawke’s Bay Museum Trust’s collection, getting up...
Date: Sunday 2 October to Friday 17 March
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Ki Uta, Ki Tai
Atareta Rerekohu Black
Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa, Ngāti Ruapani, Ngai Tūhoe,
Tā Imi Moriori
Atareta Rerekohu Black came to Te Matau a Maui to complete research for Ki Uta, Ki Tai. While she was here, she visited the Hawke’s Bay Museum Trust’s collection, getting up...
Date: Sunday 2 October to Friday 17 March
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Ben Water and Friends - with Cousin Leonard and Michael Stoddart.
Jools Holland described Ben as being one of the best pianists of all time. Ben is proud to count many of the legends of boogie-woogie and rock 'n Roll his colleagues and friends, having played alongside Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck...
Date: Saturday 28 January
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Ki Uta, Ki Tai
Atareta Rerekohu Black
Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa, Ngāti Ruapani, Ngai Tūhoe,
Tā Imi Moriori
Atareta Rerekohu Black came to Te Matau a Maui to complete research for Ki Uta, Ki Tai. While she was here, she visited the Hawke’s Bay Museum Trust’s collection, getting up...
Date: Sunday 2 October to Friday 17 March
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Ki Uta, Ki Tai
Atareta Rerekohu Black
Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa, Ngāti Ruapani, Ngai Tūhoe,
Tā Imi Moriori
Atareta Rerekohu Black came to Te Matau a Maui to complete research for Ki Uta, Ki Tai. While she was here, she visited the Hawke’s Bay Museum Trust’s collection, getting up...
Date: Sunday 2 October to Friday 17 March
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
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