A CRITICALLY-acclaimed exhibition is rolling into Basingstoke.

The Marvellous Mechanicals exhibit at the Willis Museum features ten modern automata - or mechanical sculptures - with clever mechanisms and often humorous themes.

The automata in Marvellous Mechanicals are on tour from Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, whose exhibits have been enjoyed by thousands of visitors in China, Korea and the USA, with the collection being seen by over ten million people worldwide over the past 30 years.

Marvellous Mechanicals, running until December 18 will give visitors the chance to get hands-on with some of the pieces and understand how they work.

During October half-term week, the Willis Museum is hosting a series of Make Your Own Marvellous Machine workshops on Wednesday, 24 and Thursday, 25 October, when adults and children over the age of five can exercise their creative and engineering skills, whilst also learning some of the basics about the science of mechanical movement.

For more information about the exhibition, go to hampshireculture.org.uk.

To book a place in one of the Make Your Own Marvellous Machine workshops, call 01256 465902 or pop in to the Willis Museum.