The 1997 Annual Report includes board members for 1996/97 as well as the officers of the Friends of the Hawke's Bay Cultural Trust and the Staff of: the Hawke's Bay Cultural Trust; the Hawke's Bay Museum, Napier; and the Hawke's Bay exhibition Centre. There are two copies (a) of this issue.

Contents include:
Chairman's Report by Harry Lawson
Executive Director's Report by Mark Clayton
Income Source Analysis
The Faraday Centre
Century Cinema & Theatre
The Berry Library
Trust Collections
Museum Education Services
Acquisitions
Exhibition Programme at both Museum and Exhibition Centre
Volunteer Services
Financial Statements


Exhibition Programme includes:
Edgar Mansfield: bookbindings and sculpture, toured by the National Library of New Zealand
An Introduction to the World of Gordon Crook - Images, Symbols and Dreams: from the collection
Passage : Past Migrations to Aotearoa: Sculpture by Virginia King
From Foreign Eyes: European Representation of the Māori
Bob Marley - The Man and the Legend: photographs, artwork and memorabilia
Cross-Country: Sculptures by John Edgar
Relevant Matter: paintings by Piera McArthur
Photographs by George Krause
Desecrated Follower of Fashion: provocative animal products created in the name of fashion
Children of the Holocaust: Drawings by Children of the Terezin Concentration Camp, toured by the Jewish Museum of Prague
Get Stuffed - The Secrets of Taxidermy: technical and historical story behind taxidermy, toured by Te Papa Tongarewa
Hawke's Bay Review
Four Legs Good: artwork by Lauren Lysaght
Birds of Hawke's Bay: Ornithology display
Thoroughly Modern Murray: 1920s and 1930s ceramics and glass by Keith Murray
Taking Tea with Clarice Cliff: Art Deco tea ware by Clarice Cliff
Crossings: paintings by Barbara Bailey
A Special Gift: The Walter Cook Collection of Decorative Arts, toured by Te Papa
A Culture of Collecting - 60 Years of the Hawke's Bay Museum: celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the present Hawke's Bay Museum
Natural Abstraction: artwork from 1980-1997 by Elizabeth Thompson
Cocktail Culture: Art Deco costumes from the museum's collection
Gargantuans from the Garden: gigantic robotic insects, toured by Australian Museum, Sydney
Questions and Answers: artwork by Terrence McKenna
Nga Puna Waihanga: contemporary Māori art by Para Matchitt, Ralph Hotere, Selwyn Muru and Marilyn Webb
Muka Youth Prints: artwork for kids
Open House - Stories from Parliament: stories and artefacts from Parliament
David Low - Kiwi Cartoonist on Hitler's Blacklist: expatriate New Zealand cartoonist focusing on the period leading up to WWII, toured by New Zealand Cartoon Archive
Owners: jewellery by Warwick Freeman and photographs by Patrick Reynolds
Hawke's Bay Craft Review
Black Pohutukawa: artwork by Frances Jill Studd
Rangi Kiu: mixed media fibre artwork by Rangi Kiu
Connections: jade jewellery by Sam Wilkinson and Ron Reichs
In Detail: artwork by Carole Shepheard
My Family Treasure: school-based research and discovery history project
Limited Edition: contemporary printmaking


Also included in this year, tucked inside one of the annual reports, is a pamphlet (b) titled: School Educational Services. It's contents include:
About the Hawke's Bay Cultural Trust
The Trust's Education Service
Planning a visit
Regular Programmes available
Booking a visit
Trust facilities
Local residential facilities
Local bus companies
Brief history of the Museum and its Education Service