A popular and historic Napier Hill walk that offers a chance to learn about the city's colourful and often tragic past has been selected as a finalist for a national award.
MTG Hawke's Bay's Napier Hill Cemetery Tours have been selected as a finalist in the Visitor Experience category of the prestigious Service IQ New Zealand Museum Awards.
Developed by MTG Hawke's Bay's curator of social history Gail Pope and award-winning author Peter Wells, the guided walking tours have been a popular event on Napier's summer calendar for nine years.
MTG Hawke's Bay director Laura Vodanovich said they were "delighted" the cemetery tours had been selected as a finalist for the visitor experience category.
"Public programmes are a way for the museum to engage with our community directly and the cemetery walks are a firm favourite with Hawke's Bay people every summer," she said.
This is the third time that MTG Hawke's Bay has been nominated in these Awards.
Participants are taken on a journey into Hawke's Bay's past where they learn about well-known local identities as well as ordinary men, women and children who have extraordinary stories associated with their lives and deaths.