Organisers of the yearly Easter Explorer hunt at the Whanganui Regional Museum were stunned at the record numbers coming through their doors this year.
Anne Lovell, who works front of house at the museum, said about 650 people came through on Saturday, the first day of the year they were holding the popular children's event.
"They have to go around the museum and find the numbers," Ms Lovell said.
"At the end of it they will get a small chocolate treat."
Last year on the first day of the hunt, they had closer to 200 or 300 people come through, she said.