FAMILIES are in for an ‘eggs-citing’ Easter holidays as a series of events are set to take place at the museums, galleries and arts centres operated by Hampshire Cultural Trust.

The events will happen from Saturday, April 9 to Sunday, April 24.

Milestones Museum in Basingstoke will host Play Days: Games at the Museum plus an Easter trail. There will be traditional fairground features like hoopla and hook the duck, arcade games, as well as skittles, quoits, dominoes and more.

A penguin parade will take place at Aldershot Military Museum on Wednesday, April 13 and Wednesday, April 30, at 10.30am and 1pm.

Visitors will be able to learn about the penguins of the Falkland Islands on a penguin trail and make their own hanging egg or penguin decoration.

There will also be Easter crafts, a trail and Lego workshops taking place at the Allen Gallery in Alton.

The Willis Museum and Sainsbury Gallery in Basingstoke will host a free Lego exhibition, as well as craft sessions.

Andover Museum and Museum of the Iron Age will have a Easter baskets making session on Wednesday, April 13 at 11am, and an Easter hats session on Friday, April 15, at 11am, as well as an Easter trail, Easter bookmarks and cards and Victorian activity boxes.

It will also hold spring crafts sessions on planting and bird feeders.

An Easter trail will be held at the Curtis Museum in Alton from Tuesday, April 12 until Sunday, April 24.

The Arc in Winchester will continue to display its Extraordinary Everyday: The Art & Design of Eric Ravilious exhibitions, as well as holding Easter holiday sensory play sessions.

Visitors can take part in classes to make butterfly wings, paper aeroplanes and podcasts.

A dressing-up Little Red Riding Hood storytime will also take place on April 18.

The Ashcroft Arts Centre in Fareham will host the Discover Arts Award in a Day on Thursday, April, 14.

The Forest Arts Centre in New Milton has sessions on T-shirt printing, painting, and shrink plastic jewellery.

Rockbourne Roman Villa in Fordingbridge hosts a springtime bee trail as well as mosaic making.

The Red House Museum in Christchurch hosts an exhibition called The Enveloping Canopy, capturing the life, death and endurance of trees in the New Forest.

Visitors will also be able to make Easter egg trees and take part in egg decorating.

For more go to hampshireculture.org.uk