Here you will find information about the museum, services, cultural events, news, and useful contact information.
The Hat Museum is a permanent, non-profit institution, created for the public interest, with regular public access. It brings together cultural assets and associated information, directly or indirectly related to the industry that gives it its name, preserving, documenting, researching, interpreting, and disseminating them, with scientific, cultural, educational, and recreational objectives, and with the goals of democratizing culture, promoting citizenship, and social development. To this end, it provides a set of services that contribute not only to daily fulfilling its mission but also to ensuring the fulfillment of all its museum functions.
The Public Attendance Service ensures the best reception to the visitor, provides information about the museums collection, about the visits and activities and about the other services. This service is responsible for register the visitors of the museum in order to generate a rigorous knowledge about the museum''s public. The Attendance Service works at the front desk along with the museum''s store.
The Educational Service establishes the permanent communication with the public, contextualizing them in time and space of hats production. Using and developing sensory and experimental approaches, the educational programs cover topics such as the city, people and hats. The Educational Service promotes guided tours, Cultural Routes, thematic workshops, educational activities, school projects and specific actions for groups with special needs.
The Collection Management Service is responsible for the conservation of the Museums collections, the registration, cataloguing and documentation of the collections, the study and interpretation of the collections, the compilation and analysis of memories of former and current workers and all who lived around this industry. It is also responsible for management of collections and the organization of temporary exhibitions or other events involving the use or manipulation of the pieces and collections.
The Documentation Centre is responsible for the preservation and enhancement of the documentary collections of Empresa Industrial de Chapelaria and others that have been incorporated and for the management and acquisition of specific documentation related to the vocation of the Museum. It is also responsible for providing information and support the researchers.
The Hat Museum has an auditorium with 100 seats, fully equipped (sound, light, projection and internet access). This auditorium was designed as conference room with conditions for seminars, workshops, training actions, small shows, among others. This space may be rented by other organizations. If you need more information, please contact the auditorium management service, through the following contacts:
Phone: 256 200 206
Email: museuchapelaria@cm-sjm.pt
The Hat Museum has several spaces available for your event. Firstly, the museum's cafeteria and restaurant are beautiful spaces for organizing social events, such as business breakfasts, company lunches or dinners, celebrations of special events, cocktail parties, etc., and you can also add special visits to the museum itself.
Hats have always held a great fascination. Social, cultural, and identity symbols, they tell many stories about who we are, who we were, and even who we might become. The Hat Museum has several exhibitions prepared for touring, available for museums, libraries, or other cultural institutions. Consult our list of available exhibitions.
The Hat Museum has been building a documentary collection of its activities, which includes, among other things, the catalogs of its temporary exhibitions, now available for purchase. These publications can be consulted at its Documentation Center and can also be purchased at the museum shop.
