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The age-old store trope of ‘look, don’t touch’ has gone out the window at Napier’s Faraday Museum this month, with its new interactive exhibition exploring...

Christmas and kindness always go hand in hand. This holiday season is the perfect time to remember this as we work together to make Aotearaoa New Zealand a Dementia Friendly place. Through Alzheimers NZ’s Dementia Friendly initiatives , a growing ...

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With the arrival of cruise ship season, we’re looking forward to a busy time for MTG Hawke’s Bay and the region. After two years of Covid-19, followed by...

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Emails reveal Napier City Council bowed to pressure from anti-vaxxers, closing most of its main library earlier this year over complaints unvaccinated people couldn't use it.

Napier Library has been closed this afternoon after the discovery of picric acid, a potentially explosive substance, in a museum collection. A NZ Defence Force explosive ordnance disposal team ic checking the substance found in a collection in the basement below Napier Library. Photo: RNZ / Tom Kitchin The library is in a building called the MTG, with a museum and theatre also on site. MTG director Laura Vodanovich said staff were doing routine work in the museum collections about 12.45pm, in...

Georgia May Gilbertson15:01, Jun 30 2021 MARTY SHARPE/Stuff Napiers MTG building has been unexpectedly closed due to serious faults found in the way the sprinkler system is attached to the ceiling. The Napier Library and MTG (Museum, Theatre, Gallery) building has been closed to the public following the discovery of a potentially explosive substance in the MTG collections. A Napier City Council spokeswoman said the substance is picric acid, and has been part of the collections for some time. ...

MTG Hawkes Bay and Napier Library closed for urgent remedial work 23 Dec, 2020 04:22 AM 3 minutes to read MTG Hawkes Bay and Napier Library closed for urgent remedial work over Christmas period. Photo / File One of Napiers most popular tourist attractions has closed suddenly. The MTG Hawkes Bay and Napier Library will be closed temporarily while urgent remedial work on the buildings sprinkler systems is completed. Napier City Council said the two venues will be closed from 5pm on December 23 un...