On Saturday the 5th of March Hat Works hosted ‘Sylvia vs the Fascists’, a one-woman play about the life and work of Manchester born suffragette […]
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Thanks to the HeadsUP project, we now have brand new How To guides for volunteers, Museum Assistants and Officers to help us answer collection enquiries
One of the joys of this restoration project is finding out more about the wonderful machines. Not just what part they played in the hat
My name is Jade and I’m a Museum Assistant based at Bramall Hall, a stunning Elizabethan manor house in Stockport. While my role is
This is the question that The Textile Society recently asked us. We applied for their museum award to display our most unusual collection of hats.
You may have read that big things are afoot at Hat Works. Well work began in earnest on the 1st of October to pack our
This week we released a host of hats into the Hat Works handling collection. This is one of the BIG advantages of going through our
We were delighted to receive this piece by Mike who visited Hat Works earlier in the year. He has given us permission to share it
A 12 year old working in a Victorian hat works by Mike BrooksRead More »
Tell us a little bit about what you do at Stockport Museums I oversee the technical aspect of Stockport’s museum sites, which includes programming and
An important part of getting our house in order at Hat Works has been to review all the items we have on loan. Many