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: Friday 31 March to Sunday 30 April
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: Friday 31 March to Sunday 30 April
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A rollicking new comedy by Richard Bean (One Man, Two Guvnors) and Oliver Chris (Twelfth Night). After an aerial dog fight, Pilot Officer Jack Absolute flies home to win the heart of his old flame, Lydia Languish. Back on British soil, Jack’s advances soon turn to anarchy when the young heiress...
Date: Saturday 1 April
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 2 April
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Advanced Style examines the lives of seven unique New Yorkers whose eclectic personal style and vital spirit have guided their approach to aging.
Rated PG – Course Language
1 hour 12 minutes
Date: Sunday 16 April
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
This intimate portrait for André Leon Tally, a fixture in the world of fashion, takes viewers on a journey from André’s roots growing up to becoming one of the most influential tastemakers and fashion curators of our times.
Rated PG | 1h 33m
Date: Sunday 16 April
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
The life and career of fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen: from his start as a tailor, to launching and overseeing his eponymous line and his untimely death.
M – Offensive language, nudity, rape references & suicide references | 1h 51m
Date: Sunday 16 April
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 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
The story of the fighter plane and pilots that helped win the Battle of Britain in World War II.
PG - Coarse language | 1h 35m
Date: Sunday 30 April
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.
M - Sex scenes & content that may disturb | 1h 58m
Date: Sunday 30 April
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.
M - Violence, offensive language, sexual references & nudity | 2h 7m
Date: Sunday 30 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
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Piano Trio in B flat major K 502
Arvo Pärt/Mozart | Adagio
Gareth Farr | Forbidden Colours
Johannes Brahms | One of either Piano Trio No 1, Piano Trio No 2, or Piano Trio No 3
Claire Cowan | Ultra Violet (performed only Brahms Trio No 3)
Amalia Hall,...
Date: Thursday 11 May
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A monumental programme featuring cornerstone works of the violin and piano repertoire. Menzies and Endres, both renowned soloists, come together to impress their own mastery on these giants. The virtuosic duo invites audiences in to find new and exciting ways of experiencing well-known works in a...
Date: Friday 16 June
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
It's that exciting time of year again when the world-renowned Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour comes to New Zealand. The festival serves a dual purpose of bringing the world’s best mountain films to various in-person locations across the country while also serving as a fundraiser for a...
Date: Thursday 22 June
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Programme
Franz Schubert (arr. Elliot Vaughan) | Der Tod und das Mädchen for string quartet
Franz Schubert | String Quartet No 14 in D minor, D 810 'Death and the Maiden'
Robert Schumann (arr. Elliot Vaughan) | Du bist wie eine Blume for string quartet and piano
Robert Schumann | Piano Quintet...
Date: Tuesday 25 July
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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