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.
Directed by Academy Award®-winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire), Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch (Hamlet, BBC’s Sherlock) and Jonny Lee Miller (Elementary, Trainspotting) alternating between the roles of Victor Frankenstein and his creation.
Childlike in his...
Date: Thursday 10 October
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Highlights of this year's festival are collected together in this package of short films.
Equal parts moving and silly, you’ll find here stories of triumph, friendship, fantastic creatures, and familial love.
Stars include the likes of Joanna Lumley and Ben Whishaw, alongside local actors...
Date: Thursday 24 October
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Programme
Giuseppe Tartini | Devil’s trill sonata
Camille Saint-Saëns | Violin Sonata No 1 in D minor, Op 75
Eugéne-Auguste Ysaÿe | Sonata No 5
Henryk Wieniawski | Polonaise de Concert Op 4
Béla Bartók | 3 Burlesques op. 8
Frédéric Chopin | Andante spianato and grande polonaise...
Date: Tuesday 29 October
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Ancient Babylon comes to life in this classic Met staging of biblical proportions. Baritone George Gagnidze portrays Nabucco, the King of Babylon, who is supernaturally driven mad when he proclaims himself God, then restored to health when he repents alongside soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska,...
Date: Saturday 2 November
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Beauty, creativity, genius: the Renaissance Florence of Lorenzo de' Medici was a powerhouse of art and culture. Among countless shops and government buildings, there was endless beauty coexisting with the dark side of the city, made up of power struggles, plots, intrigues and brutal violence.
...
Date: Thursday 7 November
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
MTG Century Theatre is excited to announce that this year, the Latin American & Spain Film Festival is coming to Napier!
Entry to all films are Free with ticket reservations essential - please book online.
21 November, 7pm - Margarita
(Peru)
Rated PG
Comedy
Rafo is a divorced father in...
Date: Thursday 21 November to Sunday 24 November
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
LASFF - Latin American and Spanish Film Festival 2024
Entry to all films are Free with ticket reservations essential - please book online.
The Mole Agent: El Agent Topo
(Chile)
Rated G
Documentary
When a family becomes concerned about their mother’s well-being in a retirement home,...
Date: Friday 22 November
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
LASFF - Latin America and Spain Film Festival 2024
Entry to all films are Free with ticket reservations essential - please book online.
Stories of Samba: Saudosa Maloca (in Portugese)
(Brazil)
Rated M
Biographical/drama
Adoniran Barbosa, an old samba legend, tells a young waiter stories...
Date: Friday 22 November
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
LASFF - Latin America and Spain Film Festival 2024
Entry to all films are Free with ticket reservations essential - please book online.
Strawberry & Chocolate: Fresa y chocolate
(Cuba)
Rated M
Romantic comedy
In 1979 Cuba, flamboyant gay artist Diego (Jorge Perugorría) attempts to seduce...
Date: Saturday 23 November
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
LASFF - Latin America and Spain Film Festival 2024
Entry to all films are Free with ticket reservations essential - please book online.
Agua
(Argentina)
Rated PG
Drama
Thirty four year old Goyo, a former open water swimming champion, has been hiding out in the desert. Wrongly accused of...
Date: Saturday 23 November
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
LASFF - Latin America and Spain Film Festival 2024
Entry to all films are Free with ticket reservations essential - please book online.
Lullaby: Cinco Lobitos
(Spain)
Rated M
Drama
Amaia has just become a mother and realizes that she doesn't really know how to be one. When her partner...
Date: Sunday 24 November
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
LASFF - Latin America and Spain Film Festival 2024
Entry to all films are Free with ticket reservations essential - please book online.
The Load: La Carga
(Mexico)
Rated M
Drama
The Load is a story of action and romance that takes place in New Spain at the end of the 16th century. It...
Date: Sunday 24 November
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Sam Mendes (The Lehman Trilogy) directs Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud and Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton in this fierce and funny new play.
1964: Richard Burton, newly married to Elizabeth Taylor, is to play the title role in an experimental new Broadway production of Hamlet under John Gielgud’s...
Date: Thursday 5 December
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
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