Welcome to our award-winning museum, home of the region's taonga and other treasures.
Turuturu are weaving pegs used to keep a garment off the ground when it is being made. The main peg is the right one and can be elaborately decorated. It represents the mana of Te Whare Pora—the knowledge-bank of the art-form. The peg itself upholds the mana of the growing garment and it...
Date: Sunday 12 July to Friday 17 July
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: Sunday 12 July to Sunday 30 August
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Tender is the Night: Art Deco, dancing, jazz and the lost generation.
“I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and...
Date: Sunday 12 July to Sunday 30 August
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: Sunday 12 July to Thursday 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: Sunday 12 July to Thursday 31 December
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Rongonui – Taonga mai ngā tāngata, ngā wāhi, me ngā takahanga (Treasured taonga from people, places and events), shares significant Māori taonga, treasures, relating to famous people, places and events.
Learn about major rangatira, chiefs, Māori-Pākehā relationships, famous battles,...
Date: Sunday 12 July to Sunday 1 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 12 July to Saturday 31 October
Where: MTG Hawke's Bay, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
From Sir Sydney Nolan’s epic paintings to Peter Carey’s Booker-winning novel, Ned Kelly has come a long way to find himself thundering on horseback across a barren moonlit landscape, dressed only in boots and a flowing lace frock, in this dazzling postmodern version of the outlaw...
Date: Friday 24 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
After being scammed into bankruptcy, a community of working-class Argentines band together to devise the ultimate payback – an elaborate money heist inspired by the movies – in Sebastián Borensztein’s winning underdog comedy.
Ricardo Darín, Argentina’s rustic leading everyman and no...
Date: Saturday 25 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A revelation at the French box office that’s also bound to resonate with heartland New Zealanders, In the Name of the Land humanely and bittersweetly celebrates the life of a stoic farmer over four decades of struggle.
In this heart-aching family saga set in the Mayenne district of France,...
Date: Saturday 25 July to Tuesday 28 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
After conquering Cannes with Shoplifters, Japanese auteur Kore-eda Hirokazu breathlessly transposes his beloved cinema of families, food and slow-burning truths to Paris, with an all-star cast led by two doyennes of the French silver screen.
Japan’s modern master of the family drama slides...
Date: Saturday 25 July to Monday 27 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Ginevra Elkann’s lovely directorial debut, set in the early 90s and based on her own childhood, finds three siblings arriving in Rome from Paris on a visit to their unreliable father, where family tensions and spontaneous fun mix.
Peppy eight-year-old Alma (Oro De Commarque, an adorable new...
Date: Sunday 26 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
The acclaimed director of The Sea Inside returns with his most handsomely mounted film yet, an expansive yet deep-focus drama detailing events around the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Franco’s fascist dictatorship.
In Alejandro Amenábar latest film, celebrated Spanish writer Miguel de...
Date: Sunday 26 July to Wednesday 29 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
A female-centric, intergenerational haunted house story of the highest order, Relic takes the terrifying conceit of senile dementia and transforms it into a supernatural entity that engulfs sufferers and those who care for them.
Like the much-heralded The Babadook (NZIFF14), Relic was a Sundance...
Date: Sunday 26 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Premiering their forthcoming web series as a special festival presentation, director Max Currie (Everything We Loved, NZIFF14) and writer Cole Meyers’ queer and trans-positive drama swells with character and heart.
A young trans activist, Caz (Elz Carrad), breaks down in tears in front of a...
Date: Monday 27 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
An ex-con masquerading as a priest works to heal the wounds of a grieving congregation with his unorthodox brand of faith and forgiveness in this darkly compelling Oscar-nominated Polish drama.
In Jan Komasa’s enthralling redemption tale, troublemaker Daniel (a magnetic Bartosz Bielenia),...
Date: Tuesday 28 July to Saturday 1 August
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
In the increasing public discourse on mental health, Leanne Pooley’s inspiring and fearless documentary tracks an extraordinary young woman’s journey from suicide survivor to advocate for those struggling. The fact it leaves you hopeful and with tangible advice makes it vital viewing.
Almost...
Date: Wednesday 29 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
From Sir Sydney Nolan’s epic paintings to Peter Carey’s Booker-winning novel, Ned Kelly has come a long way to find himself thundering on horseback across a barren moonlit landscape, dressed only in boots and a flowing lace frock, in this dazzling postmodern version of the outlaw...
Date: Thursday 30 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
Something completely different from the director of Beasts of the Southern Wild (NZIFF12), this swirling, kaleidoscopic take on the adventures of Peter Pan and Wendy in Neverland is uniquely for both mature kids and wide-eyed adults.
The eight long years since Benh Zeitlin’s magical first...
Date: Thursday 30 July to Sunday 2 August
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
It is predictably Nordic that a film portraying the struggle for justice against a mafia-like co-operative in a windblown Icelandic hamlet, where the elements have etched the passage of time into the handsome but weathered faces of both Inga and her husband Reynir much as the rugged terrain they...
Date: Friday 31 July to Sunday 2 August
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
In this bright, affirmative lesbian teen rom-com, a girl awkwardly angles for the attention of her high school crush with a little help from the ghost of her aunt, a queer activist with a poignant history in the fight for LGBTQI+ rights.
It’s hard enough being a high school student, but Ellie...
Date: Friday 31 July
Where: MTG Century Theatre, Napier, Hawke's Bay / Gisborne
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