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Designers collection at Museu da Chapelaria
to consider. On the other hand, the collection for the educational service receives pieces that might have minor damages or pieces that are already very well-represented in the main collection. These pieces are used for educational activities, loans, fairs or other cultural/artistic projects.” By creating partnerships and networks with other educational,
scientific and public institutions, and by loaning pieces for exhibitions, the museum is able to fulfil its key mission. This refers to the aim of promoting the dissemination and education of industrial, social and cultural themes surrounding hats and their production and use in society. The collection is stored in a room dedicated to the museum’s textile
collection. The level of protection applied to each hat or headpiece is always decided according to the analysis of its conservation status and the frailty of the materials. The most fragile pieces, like hats with plumes or feathers, are protected with acid-free paper placed in a closed individual box built specifically to match the measurements of the piece, or are placed in a plastic bag. Where necessary, inside the box or bag is a small container with silica gel and any product needed to prevent biological contamination and deterioration (e.g. anti-moth). Whatever the item displayed, the personal connection to history remains. As Joana says: “The combination of the manual and mechanical processes still in use today, of photographs of industrial spaces and its workers, of the capability of visitors to smell and touch different materials, to hear and feel themselves in an industrial ambience, to read about what hatters have to say and to get acquainted with some of these people – this is, for me, the most magical of all universes one can find in a museum.”
Hat Works Stockport, UK
www.hatworks.org
Located in a heritage mill in Stockport, northern England, Hat Works offers visitors two floors of interactive
exhibits that take visitors on a journey through the history of the town’s once thriving hatting
industry. The factory floor explores the history of fur-felt hat production that Stockport was famous for, and the
Gallery of Hats on the floor above looks at the transformative power of hat wearing. The gallery includes hatting machines that were restored with the help of a grant from the Association for Industrial Archaeology, which promotes the study, preservation and presentation of Britain’s industrial heritage. Hat Works holds nearly 20,000 items related to
hats and hat making: 1205 hats and headpieces, 41 hatting machines, 1360 hat blocks, 198 hatting tools, 223 hat pins, 382 trimmings, plus a wealth of catalogues, adverts, books, photographs and articles. This collection is growing as staff process a backlog of donations.
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