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At the MTG Hawke's Bay it's always open season

By Michelle Lee - FROM THE MTG
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29 Dec, 2017 09:00 PM3 mins to read

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Much time and thought goes into carefully planning what goes on show and when at MTG Hawke's Bay. Photo / File

Much time and thought goes into carefully planning what goes on show and when at MTG Hawke's Bay. Photo / File

This is a busy time of year, often spent hosting whanau and friends from near and far, and here at MTG Hawke's Bay we are no exception.

We're proud to say that we're open every day of the year, except Christmas Day, with our wonderful front-of-house team busy welcoming a huge range of visitors of every age and background, from here in Hawke's Bay and all over the world.

We're often the "kaikaranga", with a welcoming call for the many tourists into our beautiful region, and singing our local narratives and histories is core to what we do within our role as a community cultural hub.

So the challenge for us, as it is for so many during the festive season, is how do we best cater to the tastes of such a diverse range of visitors, showcase what is important to us in the Bay and ensure each of our guests has a wonderful time?

Much time and thought goes into carefully planning what goes on show and when.

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Key considerations include remembering what makes Hawke's Bay special on a global scale, respecting our past, a sense of our future and thinking about how each visitor might experience and be engaged by our exhibitions.

Our permanent exhibitions, Tenei Tonu and 1931 Hawke's Bay Earthquake, are narratives that position our identity and the foundations of this region.

Current exhibitions – He Manu Tioriori, Time for Tea and Deco Kimono - are a celebration of our more recent past.

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Moving outside the museum walls, and with a respectful nod to more personal histories, are the Napier Cemetery Walking Tours.

You can book a place with our front-of-house team in the main foyer for tours on February 4, March 4 and April 15. These tours give an intimate and tangible view of Hawke's Bay history.

Always important is catering for the needs of children visiting the museum.

Children make up a significant proportion of visitors over the holidays and it's nice to offer families an entertaining and educational place to go.

The kids' drop-in zone is open throughout the holidays, with craft activities for children as well as a treasure hunt around the museum.

One of the many benefits of the library service moving into MTG is that their children's summer reading programme will be run in the museum kids' drop-in zone this year.

Exhibitions such as Play Hawke's Bay continue to be a thrill for children, as they slap the images triggering the audio to play. Adults, too, seem to have just as much fun "playing" with these beautiful photographs of Hawke's Bay and the matching recordings.

Many of our visitors this summer are coming in to see our contemporary art exhibition; Te Taenga Mai o Salome by internationally renowned Yuki Kihara.

Poetic and visually hypnotic photographs and video works place the symbolic figure of Salome in the landscape of Ngāti Kahungunu ki Heretaunga – Hawke's Bay, and explores themes of arrival, memory and peoples connecting.

In the Century Theatre Foyer on January 5 we are hosting the Big Bike Film Night featuring the documentary movie All For One at 7.30pm. You can buy tickets at the museum main foyer.

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Hosting 400 visitors on Boxing Day alone, our galleries are full of hubbub, a flood of different voices, speaking a huge and wonderful range of languages, with plenty of good cheer.

So, swing in, drop by or pop over to our place these holidays, any time from 10am-5pm.

Welcome, one and all.

• Michelle Lee is Curator Maori at the Museum Theatre Gallery (MTG) Hawke's Bay.

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