Visit MAVTECH Museum of Audio Visual Technology in Manawatū-Whanganui

The museum holds a wide ranging collection of items and media covering over 100 years of audio visual technology and history. On display are film projectors, phonographs, radios, cameras, and much, much more. In their conservation store they hold around 100,000 records of various formats and an estimated 5 million feet of film.

When does the theatre run?

On the last Friday of each month (except December) MAVtech holds a film night; all done in the traditional style! Entry is $10.00 for adults – the museum opens at 6 pm for viewing and the film show starts at 7pm

Staff can demonstrate various items on display and you can even try your skills on the old Pianola (player piano). They are one of very few theatres left that are capable of showing 35mm film and the only publicly accessible cinema in NZ that can show film with traditional carbon-arc projectors, (1938 model Peerless projectors).

  • Monday – CLOSED
  • Tuesday – CLOSED
  • Wednesday – CLOSED
  • Thursday – CLOSED
  • Friday – CLOSED
  • Saturday – 14:00 to 16:00
  • Sunday – 14:00 to 16:00

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