Welcome to our award-winning museum, home of the region's taonga and other treasures.
A visit to Marineland was always something special, a treat, an adventure - the first on the agenda when visiting family or holidaying in Hawke's Bay. This exhibition tells the story from beginning to end, from the fun times through to the controversy and the eventual closure.
Marineland opened...
Date: Sunday 2 October to Friday 17 March
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Georgina Burne Hetley, an early botanical artist used her talent to capture both the beauty and scientific details of New Zealand’s flora.
Ever adventurous, Georgina was able to travel throughout New Zealand revelling, not only in the wonderfully diverse botanical treasures discovered, but in...
Date: Sunday 2 October to Sunday 16 October
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
The relationship between humankind and nature has long provided an aesthetic and philosophical context for art making. Nowadays, this relationship is often addressed in view of the urgency of climate change and the environmental crisis where humankind is seen as in conflict with the natural...
Date: Sunday 2 October to Sunday 20 November
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, 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 2 October to Friday 17 March
Where: MTG Century Theatre, 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: Sunday 2 October to Thursday 26 January
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Hard-edged paintings with startling precision and dramatic shapes, is how Hawke’s Bay artist Leanne Morrison’s artworks have been described. Commissioned by MTG Hawke’s Bay, Leanne has created a large-scale painting directly on MTG’s foyer wall.
Since graduating with a Masters in...
Date: Sunday 2 October to Saturday 12 November
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Waka kōrero Māori: waka carrying the taonga, te reo
The Waka Kōrero Māori exhibition encourages learning the Māori alphabet by pronouncing the names of the kaharehe animal treasures on display.
Bring your whanau to MTG – it’s free!
Kō Waka Kōrero Māori hei whakaaturanga kia...
Date: Sunday 2 October to Saturday 24 December
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Abstract Paintings from the Sky with tutor Jo Dixey.
A small scale surface embroidery workshop, suitable for all levels of stitcher. Using a variety of threads held down with sewing thread on a cotton calico background, all stitched in a simple bamboo hoop.
Jo Dixey studied an Apprenticeship...
Date: Sunday 2 October
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Come join us at the MTG Foyer tables and using hessian, wool, chunky needles and notions, we will help you create a masterpiece!
This is a free activity and is a wonderful opportunity for tamariki to try something new. You don't need to book, just come on in.
For children of all ages -...
Date: Sunday 2 October
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
This exhibition shows a history of people and places of Ngāti Kahungunu, telling stories of their time and the events that shaped Te Matau-a-Māui into the region of Hawke’s Bay, events that also helped to shape Aotearoa into New Zealand.
Kahungunu was a peaceful man, a producer, provider,...
Date: Sunday 2 October to Wednesday 1 February
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
This is an opportunity to get a quick lesson in embroidery with Jo Dixey, stitching a small leaf brooch.
Jo will sit in a public space at the museum, and anyone interested is welcome to stop and try their hand at embroidery with her.
Jo Dixey studied an Apprenticeship with the Royal School of...
Date: Monday 3 October
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Enjoy Nuit Blanche with a light show in front of the museum.
Bring the kids to do a special activity using colour and light, and create something amazing!
While you are here, explore the museum and discover new exhibitions, displays and interactive experiences. There is something for...
Date: Saturday 15 October
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A muscular piece of poetry.
The searing and sensual romance of Elizabeth and Tom. Dark secrets, deep passions, and heart-breaking truths bubble over as lovers savour precious moments together. Set in twentieth-century Canterbury farming heartland, the text remains deeply resonant with striking...
Date: Tuesday 18 October
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A world premiere of thoughtfully curated songs, more than 30 years in the making, award-winning musician Teremoana Rapley performs her long-awaited, full-length debut album Daughter of a Housegirl.
Bass-heavy beats and sweet flamenco-inspired folk tunes are overlaid with vibrations and...
Date: Friday 21 October
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Douglas Lloyd Jenkins’ first novel is an intense love story and a love song to Auckland’s vanishing past, depicting the myriad complexities of male relationships, the possibilities offered by chance encounters and the exquisite beauty of friendship - and a home - found in unexpected places....
Date: Saturday 22 October
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
While receiving treatment for prostate cancer, writer Peter Wells – an intensely private person – reached out to the world via Facebook, where he examined his life as he also contemplated the end of it. Peter’s posts were collated and published under the title Hello Darkness.
Now,...
Date: Saturday 22 October
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Join us for a Sunday afternoon of classics, kicking off with Casablanca at 1pm.
During WWII, Rick, a nightclub owner in Casablanca, agrees to help his former lover Ilsa and her husband. Soon, Ilsa's feelings for Rick resurface and she finds herself renewing her love for him.
PG 1h 42m
The...
Date: Sunday 23 October
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Join us for a Sunday afternoon of classics, kicking off with Casablanca at 1pm, followed by Another Mother's Son at 3.30pm.
On the Nazi-occupied island of Jersey during World War II, grieving Louisa Gould finds a new outlet for her maternal love when she takes in an escaped Russian prisoner of...
Date: Sunday 23 October
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Join us for a Sunday afternoon of classics, kicking off with Casablanca at 1pm, followed by Another Mother's Son at 3.30pm and Benediction at 6pm.
Decorated for bravery during World War I, British soldier Siegfried Sassoon returns from service and becomes a vocal critic of the government's...
Date: Sunday 23 October
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
It’s 1998. Otto is twelve but online he’s thirteen and he’s pretty sure he gets away with it. He lives in an old wooden house with his mum, dad, and sister, a mysterious Icelandic granny, and an ancient malevolent troll that's lurking in the walls...
From internationally acclaimed Trick...
Date: Saturday 29 October
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
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