This may not sound like the most appealing museum, but one visit here will change all that. Thankfully this gem was minutes away from where I was staying. To start with, there are displays of different hats worn over the centuries and even a bit...More

I've been to the hat museum a few times before. I didn't like the extra displays as much as I have previously. There were some interesting places, like the hatter's cottage, but the machines on the ground floor just seemed endless and clumped together. My...More

Been past this place many times over the years but just assumed it would be a few hats in a room how wrong we were, There is loads of history about the Stockport area and process of making hats, machinary, etc the guided tour fully...More

Only a few minutes walk from Stockport train or bus station, the hat museum tells the history of hats by 2 floors of hat history. One floor shows hundreds of different hats, displayed well with excellent information. The lower floor shows the machinery required to...More

Worth a few hours if you are in and around manchester - learn how hats were made and the origins of the mad hatter from lewis carroll! great fun day out!

We had visited the Hat Works on a previous visit to the UK. The Museum has been upgraded since that time. The film (pre the guided tour) was good. The Tour Guide was excellent and responded well to the many questions that were posed by...More

This is a fascinating place to visit. I never new there was so much involved in making a hat. I certainly never new that it involved beaver fur! Museum free, but well worth paying £3.75(concessions) for a tour of the factory. Our guide was Gordon,...More