Esperaza hat museum brings together the machines and various equipments which constituted the production lines for the felt bell and then the finished hat, a video of which retraces the 25 steps necessary, if not indispensable, to the development of A felted hat of very high quality. Two spaces in the form of workshops "crowd and appropriation" raise both the veil on the manufacture and the problems related to the mechanical evolution dating from the industrial revolution. Photographs, commented works and models of headwear complete the illustration of these different phases, giving a technical and historical overview of this once recognized world-wide industry. The Musee d'Esperaza and the Association "Les Amis du Musee de la Chapellerie" are pleased to welcome you, thanks to a dynamic team, anxious before anything else to share your passion for this art of hat making. They have Brought back to life a true inheritance, witnesses of the traditions of the daily life that once made the wealth of Esperaza.