Stockport Museums Heritage Open Days 2023
Stockport Museums are hosting a range of Heritage Open Days across Stockport from the 8th – 15th of September.
Friday 8th & Saturday 9th – The Hat Works – Tour of The Factory Floor
- Take a Taster Tour of the Factory Floor to give a flavour of Stockport’s hatting history.
This is a story where creativity, ingenuity and skill collided to build a global industry.
FREE – Please book to guarantee your place: 10am, 11am, 1.30pm, 2.30pm and 3.30pm
Booking & Info: https://stockport-museums.arttickets.org.uk/
Friday 8th & Sunday 10th – Bramall Hall – Self-guided Visits
- Explore Bramall Hall, one of England’s finest timber-framed manor houses.
Learn more about the lives of people who lived and worked at the Hall and take in some exceptional architectural features.
Don’t miss the Solar and the Hall’s sensational suite of Tudor wall paintings, they are of international importance and there is nothing quite like them in England.
You can also try your hand at the favourite Victorian leisure activity – Brass Rubbing in our banqueting room thanks to the Friends of Bramall Hall.
Suitable for all ages.
FREE – Booking Essential. 11am – 3.45pm
Tickets are available from our online box office Art Tickets: https://stockport-museums.arttickets.org.uk/
Saturday 9th September – The Hat Works – Junk Model Your Own Machine
- Inspired by Stockport’s Great Frogtastic Invention Trail we’ve been taking a fresh look at our amazing machines on the Factory Floor!
Come and create your own hatting machine out of stuff that would usually be thrown away.
Open to everyone
Free from 11am – 3pm
Drop-in – no booking required
Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th – Stockport Museum – Junk Interventions!
- Inspired by Stockport’s Great Frogtastic Invention Trail use some junk materials to create your own invention. Free and open to everyone.
No booking required
Available during opening hours.
Sunday 10th & Wednesday 13th – Staircase House – Self-guided Visits
Book your FREE ticket on Art Tickets.
Booking & Info: https://stockport-museums.arttickets.org.uk/
Only visitors with pre-booked tickets can visit.
Visitors can access junk inventions activity in Stockport Museum on Sunday 10 September.
Sunday 10th & Saturday 16th – Town Centre – Stockport Modern History and Architecture Walking Tour
- MEET AT: Plaza Theatre, Mersey Square, Stockport, SK1 1SP at 11am or 2pm
Discover why Stockport looks like it does on this fascinating town centre walking tour. Join us to learn how local industry, town planning and ideas about modernism shaped Stockport.
Take a trip through 100 years of Stockport’s architectural history, from the creation of Merseyway to the newest buildings in the town’s redevelopment. Commercial and civic buildings past and present. Charting the ups and downs of industry and culture, up and down the town’s topography.
FREE – TO BOOK: email maraiga.bailey@stockport.gov.uk or call 0161 474 4469
Wednesday 13th & Sunday 17th – Air Raid Shelters – Self-guided Visits
- FREE ENTRY – Self-guided Visits
Book your FREE ticket on Art Tickets.
Booking & Info: https://stockport-museums.arttickets.org.uk/
NB. Only visitors with pre-booked tickets can visit.
Wartime Games
How would you pass the time if you were sheltering in the tunnels?
There’s a chance to play with some wartime-style toys and find out about some of the other games people might have played while waiting for the all clear.
