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LOAN TO THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM

The Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones exhibition at the V&A Museum in London is going International!

The exhibition is being extended and travelling to the Art Gallery of Queensland, Brisbane from March to June 2010.

The cauliflower hat and Queens Mother’s presentation box from HW collections will be travelling with the exhibition until 2012.

Future exhibition venues to be confirmed. . . . click here for exhibition details.

HAT WORKS HAS DONE IT AGAIN!
For the fourth consecutive year HatWorks has been assessed under the Visit Britain's, Visitor Attraction Quality Assurance Scheme (VAQAS), passing various mystery shops.
VAQAS aims to assess the quality of the visitor experience and any aspect of an attraction's operation that may impact on that overall quality.
The assessor, Chris Vere was very impressed with the museum. His report stated that “Hat Works is great fun – with an appeal to adults and children. Displays are imaginative and there is plenty of hands-on, the breadth of the offering is quite exceptional.”
The report added that “Hat Works provides an excellent standard of visitor experience and comfortably merits the continued Visit Britain accreditation.” - Read all about it here . . . August 2008

Hat Works goes from Strength to Strength
Just a few months after winning the prestigious Manchester Tourism Awards in the category of 'Best Small Visitor Attraction', Hat Works has, for the second time, been assessed under the Visitor Attraction Quality Assurance Service (VAQAS), passing the assessors' scrutiny - Read all about it here . . . 2007

New to the Museum
The Gallery interpretation project launch
Thanks to a generous grant from the MLA, Hat Works gallery has been able to make information about the hatting collection available in languages that reflect the region’s diverse communities, visually impaired visitors and tourist from over seas.

Information about the hatting collection is now available in Urdu, Chinese, Bengali, Large Print, German and French . The Hat Works team is delighted to have been able to increased the physical and intellectual access to our hatting gallery through this project.