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.
Comedy | Rating M | 97 minutes
French with English subtitles
Cathy is a stubborn 40-year-old sous chef. This year, she is finally about to fulfil her lifelong dream: opening her own gastronomic restaurant. But nothing goes as planned.
Facing serious financial difficulties, she reluctantly...
Date: Friday 1 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
The legendary Gérard Depardieu brings to remarkable life one of the most beloved characters from 20th-century crime fiction in Maigret, the masterfully directed and hugely entertaining new film from multi-award-winning writer/director Patrice Leconte (Monsieur Hire, Ridicule, The Girl on The...
Date: Friday 1 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Juliette Binoche (How to Be a Good Wife, AF FFF20) stars in this immersive drama based on French journalist Florence Aubenas’ bestselling non-fiction book, Le Quai de Ouistreham (The Night Cleaner).
Marianne (Binoche), a writer posing as a cash-strapped divorcée who needs work, is hired as a...
Date: Friday 1 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A hilarious comedy à la française! From South America to Sweden, Employee of the Month will make you cry with laughter and take the audience on an overdue journey around the world.
Jérôme Commandeur (Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion, AF FFF19) produces a satire full of twists and...
Date: Saturday 2 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
DRAMA / FRANCE / 2022 / 116 MIN / M
The legendary Daniel Auteuil gives one of his most superlative screen performances in the gripping new film from writer/director Fred Cavayé, based on the celebrated, multi–Molière Award-winning play.
Occupied Paris, 1941: Jews are instructed to...
Date: Saturday 2 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | M | 103 minutes | French with English subtitles.
A crooner with a broken heart, Gaspard had sworn never to fall in love again. As for Lula, a pretty mermaid, she has only her singing to defend herself from men, making their hearts race until they explode.
Date: Saturday 2 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Comedy | Rating M | 97 minutes
French with English subtitles
Cathy is a stubborn 40-year-old sous chef. This year, she is finally about to fulfil her lifelong dream: opening her own gastronomic restaurant. But nothing goes as planned.
Facing serious financial difficulties, she reluctantly...
Date: Saturday 2 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
FAMILY, KIDS COMEDY, COMEDY / FRANCE / 2021 / 103 MIN / PG
French with English subtitles
From writer/director Julien Rappeneau (Rosalie Blum, Of Love & Lies), this charming and hilarious comedy is a lavish big-screen adventure featuring author René Goscinny (Asterix) and illustrator...
Date: Sunday 3 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Adapted from Emmanuèle Bernheim’s memoir, Everything Went Well, Director François Ozon (Summer of 85, AF FFF21) delivers a powerful drama which tackles the sensitive and complex issue of the right to die with dignity.
When André (André Dussolier, Of Love and Lies, AF FFF20), 85, has a...
Date: Sunday 3 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A hilarious comedy à la française! From South America to Sweden, Employee of the Month will make you cry with laughter and take the audience on an overdue journey around the world.
Jérôme Commandeur (Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion, AF FFF19) produces a satire full of twists and...
Date: Sunday 3 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
In this irreverent and feel-good comedy, a group of long-time friends get together for a hilarious and eventful vacation, in which nothing will go as planned and their friendship will be put to the test.
To celebrate Yves’ 50th birthday, his friends plan to take him to the sunny paradise of...
Date: Sunday 3 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Attention all architecture lovers!
We're proud to present 'Working with Dreams', an unmissable lecture series from 2021 Gold Medallist Julie Stout @mitchellstoutdodd_architects.
An accomplished architect, educator and activist, Julie is the first woman to receive the Gold Medal, the highest...
Date: Wednesday 6 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
The third entry in secret agent OSS 117's parodic spy adventures.
The clueless, arrogant, hilarious and staunchly patriotic French secret agent, as silly as his retrograde attitudes — Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka agent OSS 117 — is back in OSS 117: From Africa With Love.
It’s 1981,...
Date: Thursday 7 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
The fabulous Fanny Ardant, Melvil Poupaud and Cécile de France beguile in The Young Lovers, Carine Tardieu’s eagerly anticipated follow up to Just to Be Sure (AF FFF17), a modern and emotionally-nuanced romantic dramedy of a woman who embarks on a relationship with a much younger man, and the...
Date: Thursday 7 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Adapted from Emmanuèle Bernheim’s memoir, Everything Went Well, Director François Ozon (Summer of 85, AF FFF21) delivers a powerful drama which tackles the sensitive and complex issue of the right to die with dignity.
When André (André Dussolier, Of Love and Lies, AF FFF20), 85, has a...
Date: Friday 8 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
In this irreverent and feel-good comedy, a group of long-time friends get together for a hilarious and eventful vacation, in which nothing will go as planned and their friendship will be put to the test.
To celebrate Yves’ 50th birthday, his friends plan to take him to the sunny paradise of...
Date: Friday 8 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
DRAMA / FRANCE / 2022 / 116 MIN / M
The legendary Daniel Auteuil gives one of his most superlative screen performances in the gripping new film from writer/director Fred Cavayé, based on the celebrated, multi–Molière Award-winning play.
Occupied Paris, 1941: Jews are instructed to...
Date: Friday 8 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
In this psychological thriller in the Hitchcockian tradition, Virginie Efira (Bye Bye Morons, AF FFF21) deftly embodies the troubled personality of Madeleine Collins, a woman living a double life, whose identity cracks under the weight of her own lies.
The film tells the parallel stories of a...
Date: Saturday 9 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
The remarkable Vincent Lindon (At War, AF FFF19; Rodin, AF FFF18), reunites with acclaimed writer/director Stéphane Brizé (At War, AF FFF19) for the stunning Another World, delivering a powerhouse turn as a driven white-collar manager torn between duty to his job, his family and his...
Date: Saturday 9 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
DRAMA / FRANCE / 2022 / 108 MIN / M
French with English subtitles
In his feature debut, French filmmaker Yohan Manca breaks down the barriers and preconceptions surrounding art and culture with a touching story of hope, chance and overcoming adversity.
La Traviata, My Brothers and I, tells...
Date: Saturday 9 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
This romantic comedy is centered around Antoine (Pascal Elbé, Knock, AF FFF18) a history professor in his early 50s, who discovers he is losing his hearing. Unable to own up to his disability and his attempts to disguise it only resulting in those around him finding his behaviour increasingly odd,...
Date: Saturday 9 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
The fabulous Fanny Ardant, Melvil Poupaud and Cécile de France beguile in The Young Lovers, Carine Tardieu’s eagerly anticipated follow up to Just to Be Sure (AF FFF17), a modern and emotionally-nuanced romantic dramedy of a woman who embarks on a relationship with a much younger man, and the...
Date: Sunday 10 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
DRAMA / FRANCE / 2022 / 116 MIN / M
The legendary Daniel Auteuil gives one of his most superlative screen performances in the gripping new film from writer/director Fred Cavayé, based on the celebrated, multi–Molière Award-winning play.
Occupied Paris, 1941: Jews are instructed to...
Date: Sunday 10 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
The legendary Gérard Depardieu brings to remarkable life one of the most beloved characters from 20th-century crime fiction in Maigret, the masterfully directed and hugely entertaining new film from multi-award-winning writer/director Patrice Leconte (Monsieur Hire, Ridicule, The Girl on The...
Date: Sunday 10 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
From an early age, men are conditioned to believe that expressing their feelings is incompatible with male identity. Get ready to explore the whole range of emotions through a masculine lens in this feel-good comedy.
Seven men, aged from 17 to 70 years old, all city-dwellers, meet up at a remote...
Date: Sunday 10 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Returning to Napier in Hawkes Bay, we have the popular and inspiring NZ Mountain Film Festival National Tour with its amazing films celebrating outdoor adventurers getting out there and doing it!
Internationally recognised as one of the world’s premier mountain film festival events an audience...
Date: Thursday 21 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Tutankhamun. The Last Exhibition offers spectators, for the first time ever, an extraordinary opportunity to meet the Pharaoh, and relive those unique moments on the big screen following exclusive coverage of how 150 items from among his treasures, were moved to become part of the biggest...
Date: Friday 22 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Laurent Pelly’s storybook staging of Massenet’s Cendrillonis presented with an all-new English translation in an abridged 90-minute adaptation, with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as its rags-to-riches princess. Maestro Emmanuel Villaume leads a delightful cast, which includes mezzo-soprano Emily...
Date: Saturday 23 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Tom Stoppard’s Olivier Award-winning new play Leopoldstadt is a passionate drama of love, family, and endurance. At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz, a factory owner, and baptised Jew now married to Catholic...
Date: Friday 29 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
NEW DATE - RESCHEDULED FROM FEBRUARY.
Join award-winning comedian Chris Parker on tour for a night of his greatest hits.
A rising star of the New Zealand comedy scene, Chris has been seen on TV on 7 Days, Jono and Ben, Funny Girls and Have You Been Paying Attention as well as making a...
Date: Friday 5 August
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
The resonance of the cello pulls at the heartstrings, a compelling soundtrack for star crossed lovers and deep longings for that beyond our reach. Few have not yearned to be with loved ones in the last two years. This tour reunites two friends, and musical accomplices that have made their homes on...
Date: Saturday 13 August
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Borders divide us. Yet in the meeting places between one thing and another is sometimes found the greatest variety and vitality. From Tasmania comes a group of performers that revel in the liveliness and intrigue of borderlands. Playing music of composers who lived and worked, as fluid borders...
Date: Saturday 13 August
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
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