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 5 February to Sunday 23 April
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Exclusively screening at MTG Century Theatre!
Inkeri, 75, after hitting her husband on the head with a frying pan, flees with her two sisters Raili and Sylvi. The journey through Finland is filled with charming hitchhikers, memories, and sinful dancing.
When Inkeri comes across her old...
Date: Thursday 9 February
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Exclusively screening at MTG Century Theatre!
The Jonsson Gang (Se Upp för Jönssonligan) is a reboot of Sweden’s all-time favourite comedy franchise Jönssonligan.
Following a failed heist, Charles-Ingvar ‘Sickan’ Jonsson ends up in prison. Once released, his gang have become...
Date: Thursday 9 February
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Exclusively screening at MTG Century Theatre!
It’s July 29, 1981. In the majestic St Paul’s Cathedral in London, Lady Diana Spencer marries Prince Charles. The same day, another celebration takes place in the canteen of a Norwegian small-town factory. It’s the newly-weds LIV and TERJE’S...
Date: Friday 10 February
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Exclusively screening at MTG Century Theatre!
Everybody Hates Johan is an explosive comedy about the life of Johan, a small town loner with a flair for dynamite who finds himself in constant conflict with the rural community.
Orphaned at a young age, Johan is brought up by his aunt and uncle...
Date: Friday 10 February
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Exclusively screening at MTG Century Theatre!
It’s July 29, 1981. In the majestic St Paul’s Cathedral in London, Lady Diana Spencer marries Prince Charles. The same day, another celebration takes place in the canteen of a Norwegian small-town factory. It’s the newly-weds LIV and TERJE’S...
Date: Saturday 11 February
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Exclusively screening at MTG Century Theatre!
Inkeri, 75, after hitting her husband on the head with a frying pan, flees with her two sisters Raili and Sylvi. The journey through Finland is filled with charming hitchhikers, memories, and sinful dancing.
When Inkeri comes across her old...
Date: Saturday 11 February
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Exclusively screening at MTG Century Theatre!
Everybody Hates Johan is an explosive comedy about the life of Johan, a small town loner with a flair for dynamite who finds himself in constant conflict with the rural community.
Orphaned at a young age, Johan is brought up by his aunt and uncle...
Date: Saturday 11 February
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Exclusively screening at MTG Century Theatre!
Inkeri, 75, after hitting her husband on the head with a frying pan, flees with her two sisters Raili and Sylvi. The journey through Finland is filled with charming hitchhikers, memories, and sinful dancing.
When Inkeri comes across her old...
Date: Sunday 12 February
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Exclusively screening at MTG Century Theatre!
It’s July 29, 1981. In the majestic St Paul’s Cathedral in London, Lady Diana Spencer marries Prince Charles. The same day, another celebration takes place in the canteen of a Norwegian small-town factory. It’s the newly-weds LIV and TERJE’S...
Date: Sunday 12 February
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Exclusively screening at MTG Century Theatre!
The Jonsson Gang (Se Upp för Jönssonligan) is a reboot of Sweden’s all-time favourite comedy franchise Jönssonligan.
Following a failed heist, Charles-Ingvar ‘Sickan’ Jonsson ends up in prison. Once released, his gang have become...
Date: Sunday 12 February
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
The story of the fighter plane and pilots that helped win the Battle of Britain in World War II.
Genre: Documentary (History, War)
Director and Producer: David Fairhead
Starring: John Ackroyd, Charles Dance
Rated PG - course language | Documentary | 1 hour 36 minutes ...
Date: Sunday 19 February
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A story that exposes the conspiracy of prominent German institutions and government branches to cover up the crimes of Nazis during World War II.
Genre: Drama, History
Director: Giulio Ricciarelli
Rated M - Sex scenes & content that may disturb | 1 hour 58 minutes
Date: Sunday 19 February
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A young Jewish man pretends to be Iranian to avoid being executed in a concentration camp.
Genre: Drama, War
Director: Vadim Perelman
Starring: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay
Rated M - Violence, offensive language, sexual references & nudity | 2 hours 7 minutes
Date: Sunday 19 February
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Dir. Charlotte Wells | Cast Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio | Genre Drama | Country UK | Running Time 101 mins | Rated M - Offensive language, nudity & flashing images that may cause seizures
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years...
Date: Thursday 23 February
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Soprano Nadine Sierra stars as the self-sacrificing courtesan Violetta—one of opera’s ultimate heroines—in Michael Mayer’s vibrant production of Verdi’s beloved tragedy.
Tenor Stephen Costello is her self-centered lover Alfredo, alongside baritone Luca Salsi as his disapproving father...
Date: Sunday 26 February
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 5 February to Sunday 23 April
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
This documentary film highlights the two sides of Frida Kahlo’s spirit: on one side the revolutionary, pioneering artist of contemporary feminism and on the other, the human being, victim of her tortured body and a tormented relationship.
With Asia Argento as narrator, the two faces of the...
Date: Thursday 2 March
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Let the good times roll Hawkes Bay! The Big Bike Film Night is back in the Bay on its mission- bringing the best cycling short films from around the world together for you.
Showcasing a carefully crafted and curated collection of bike films that has everything a cycle-centric audience could want...
Date: Thursday 9 March
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Five men from different islands throughout the South Pacific join forces in 1978 and find the words and the music within each other to give New Zealand its voice and Pacific place in the world.
Genre: Documentary
PG - Violence & offensive language | 1hour 30 minutes
Date: Sunday 12 March
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A musician helps a young singer find fame as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
Director: Bradley Cooper
Starring: Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga
Rated M - Suicide, sex scenes, offensive language & drug use | 2 hours and 16 minutes
Date: Sunday 12 March
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A documentary that celebrates Rick Hall, the founder of Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and the signature sound he developed in songs such as "I'll Take You There", "Brown Sugar", and "When a Man Loves a Woman".
Rated PG – Course Language | 1 hour 51 minutes
Date: Sunday 12 March
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Soprano Renée Fleming makes her highly anticipated return to the Met in the world-premiere production of Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts’s The Hours, adapted from Michael Cunningham’s acclaimed novel. Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and made a household name by the...
Date: Sunday 19 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 5 February to Sunday 23 April
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Join us on a visually stunning journey through the daily life of the magnificent Hermitage museum, and retrace two and a half centuries of legendary art and history.
Featuring the largest collection of paintings in the world, the Hermitage has been a meeting place for foreign artists, architects...
Date: Thursday 27 April
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Giordano’s exhilarating drama Fedora returns to the Met for the first time in 25 years, starring soprano Sonya Yoncheva in the title role of the 19th-century princess who falls in love with her fiancé’s murderer, Count Loris, sung by tenor Piotr Beczała. Soprano Rosa Feola is the Countess...
Date: Sunday 7 May
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Baritone Michael Volle stars as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance, in Verdi’s glorious Shakespearean comedy. Maestro Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to oversee a brilliant ensemble cast that features sopranos Hera Hyesang Park...
Date: Sunday 18 June
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A stellar trio assembles to take on the lead roles of Strauss’s comedy, with soprano Lise Davidsen in her Met role debut as the Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard in her Met role debut as Octavian, and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie. Bass Günther Groissböck returns as Baron Ochs,...
Date: Sunday 30 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove makes his Met debut with a new staging of Mozart’s tragicomedy Don Giovanni. The tale of deceit and damnation is set in an abstract architectural landscape that explores the dark corners of the story and its characters.
Nathalie Stutzmann makes her...
Date: Sunday 10 September
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Nathalie Stutzmann conducts her second Mozart work this season with a new production of Die Zauberflöte. In his Met-debut staging, Simon McBurney incorporates projections, sound effects, and acrobatics to match the spectacle and drama of Mozart’s fable. The brilliant cast includes soprano Erin...
Date: Sunday 5 November
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
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