From the onset of colonisation, European immigrants and their descendants have been bringing and maintaining their own culture in Aotearoa, including a characteristic art tradition.
These twelve artworks by five Pakeha painters illustrate the way in which people of European heritage in New...
Date: Saturday 16 November to Sunday 1 December
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Silver, valued for its rarity and attractive lustre, has for centuries been mined and formed into an extensive range of domestic, personal, religious, and ceremonial objects.
Silver is one of the most versatile and singular precious metals: it is malleable and ductile and has a relatively low...
Date: Saturday 16 November to Tuesday 31 December
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
This stunning exhibition features a broad range of historic and contemporary taonga from the collection of the Hawke's Bay Museums Trust, Ruawharo Ta-u-rangi.
Translated as 'always here', Tēnei Tonu shares diverse stories of local Iwi Ngati Kahungunu and their enduring connection to the...
Date: Saturday 16 November to Wednesday 1 January
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
“The outline of the hill turned into a giant serpent as it heaved up and down. The shock wave swept across it, creating a monster crossing the skyline.” - NG Bailey
At 10:47am on 3 February 1931, a devastating earthquake struck Hawke’s Bay. In that moment it seemed the end of the world had...
Date: Saturday 16 November to Friday 31 January
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Solve a mystery, and learn a little history! Family friendly and fun for all ages, Mystery of History takes you on a journey from the legendary to the magical and from the ancient to the more unusual.
Discover and explore ancient artifacts from around the world, the magician’s bag of tricks,...
Date: Saturday 16 November to Sunday 30 August
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Matimati Huruhuru me te Muka
He mātiti raranga te turuturu e whakamahia ana kia kaua e pā te kākahu ki te papa i te wā e mahia mai. Ko te mātiti matua ko te mea matau, ā, ka taea tērā te whakanikoniko. E whakaatu ana i te mana o Te Whare Pora – ngā mātauranga toi. E pupuri ana te...
Date: Saturday 16 November to Sunday 15 March
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Award winning singer and actress Ali Harper is bringing her show 'Legendary Divas' to the Hawkes Bay to support the Napier and Hastings Women's Refuge.
This hit show has toured through out New Zealand as well as to New York and celebrates all the incredible singers that have inspired us with...
Date: Thursday 28 November
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
For years, Walter Keane was known as one of the most commercially successful artists of the 1960s. His paintings of waif-thin girls with eyes four times their normal size were dubbed “the most popular art now being produced in the free world” in a 1965 LIFE story. But Walter Keane, it turns...
Date: Saturday 30 November
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
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