14 | Hastings District Council: Museum and Archive Facility T T Kim Newth New, safe home for precious archives REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Queen Street East in Hastings is an historic area, fast regenerating as a vibrant arts and culture precinct. It is an eminently fitting place for Hawke’s Bay’s Regional Museum Research and Archive Centre, currently under construction. The new centre has been designed as a purpose-built home for one of the most significant regional collections in New Zealand, comprising around 90,000 artefacts. Hastings District and Napier City councils, the Hawke’s Bay Museums Trust and Ngāti Kahungungu have worked together on this project over the past five years. The new facility, at 307 Queen Street East, will provide secure, appropriate, permanent storage for the extensive collection. Gemco Construction started the build last October. There is a lot happening on site this autumn with the floor being laid, followed by installation of exterior walls and roof. At the same time, the Hawke’s Bay collection is being prepared for its move to the new facility in 2025. “The Hawke’s Bay collection is officially valued in the millions, but really it is priceless,” says MTG [Museum, Theatre and Gallery] Hawke’s Bay director Laura Vodanovich. “At the moment, items are housed in different locations and they are being expertly sorted, packed and labelled by the MTG Hawke’s Bay collections care and access team.” Meeting dual-purpose requirements, the new centre’s considered design by award winning RTA Studio will have ‘a lighthouse’ serving as an education, research and workspace and ‘a darkhouse’ to provide secure, temperature and humidity-controlled storage with a focus on protection and preservation. Hastings is proud of what this new centre will bring to the Queen Street East area, already home to Toitoi Hawke’s Bay Arts & Events Centre and the Opera House. “It is going into a former Briscoes building that had been empty for several years, and which is now being transformed into an architecturally impressive building,” says Bruce Allan, Deputy Chief Executive, Hastings District Council. “It will further add to the reinvigora- “The Hawke’s Bay collection is officially valued in the millions, but really it is priceless.” T T to page 16 tion of that end of town as Hastings’ cultural hub. “Not only that, having the regional collection here opens up opportunities to access it and learn from it. This is not a museum but the lighthouse part of it will be curated to an extent that it will provide a valuable education and learning space.” He observes that Hastings was chosen as the collection’s new home base as it was away from the coast and provided a more resilient long-time location. 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