Venue Hire
For your conferemce, training or one-day exhibition, London Canal Museum is the interesting unusual, accessible and central venue of character for your event - on Mondays only. (Small meetings for up to 20 delegates are catered for on any day. Evening and breakfast meetings are catered for on any day. See small meetings and evening meetings and breakfast meetings for details.)
Above. The Prime Minister, Rt. Hon Tony Blair MP, at a conference to launch the government's annual report on sustainable development, London Canal Museum, Monday February 24th 2003
We offer an attractive unusual venue with abundant character when you need to get out of the office for a meeting, conference, training day, or seminar. The peaceful waterside location and attractive surroundings of the museum can contribute to the success of your day - with the convenience of a central London location close to excellent transport.
The museum is available for daytime conferences on Mondays (except bank holidays) and for evening meetings (from 1630 onwards) on any day. There is space on the first floor for up to 150 delegates to be seated. The ground floor can be used for coffee on arrival, for a buffet lunch, afternoon tea, and as a "breakout" area for smaller groups to meet. It can also be used as an exhibition area if you wish to showcase your product or organisation. The museum's conference room can be used as a small seminar room or as an organiser's room in connection with a conference.
The conference room can also be booked for storage purposes before or after the event. This means you can have the convenience of having materials or equipment delivered beforehand, by arrangement with us, and collected afterwards, perhaps the next morning.
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We have a range of furniture available including 10 folding oblong tables, and 12 round tables (5' diameter). There are 120 attractive blue upholstered chairs suitable for conference use, and we have enough other chairs to seat 150 delegates, theatre style, in total.
For "Cabaret Style" conferences (where delegates sit at round tables) the maximum number is 80, but if you want everyone to be able to see a screen or speaker without turning their chairs around, the maximum is 60. The exact number depends on the detail of your layout preferences. If there is no projection screen it may be possible to exceed the usual maximum. Quotations for Monday conferences are normally inclusive of furniture and setting up by us.. We usually provide luxury disposable table cloths, included in the charge, but you are free to arrange cloths yourself or with your caterer if you prefer. Disposable table cloths can be used for brainstorming and taken away at the end of the event - write down your inspired ideas with us!
We offer an optional tea/coffee/biscuits service, normally provided on the ground floor. The conference business is on the fully accessible first floor. This gives delegates a chance to mingle, a change of scene, and a chance to enjoy the exhibitions and atmosphere during coffee breaks. Our coffee service is noted for the wide range of specialty teas offered as alternatives to our tasty ground coffee. Hot and cold fresh milk are provided - you will never find UHT milk in the building! If you prefer you may ask your caterer to provide refreshments - we don't insist that you use our services.
You are free to use the outside caterers of your choice, whether they bring in drinks, snacks or a lavish buffet. We don't offer food ourselves. To make things easy for you we suggest a selection of experienced catering firms who will be happy to quote for your meals. Wine glasses are available for hire.
We have a wide range of audio-visual equipment available in-house. Projectors, screens, public address, DVD players, and an interactive whiteboard are all available. If you want to show a DVD, with sound, hold an interactive question-and-answer session with your audience, using public address and a pass-round microphone, have a continuous powerpoint presentation running during breaks, or just use a low-tech flip-chart, then we can help. Power supplies are available around the walls of the museum so that nowhere is far from one. Clients may if they wish provide their own audio-visual equipment, which must be set up during the period of hire of the museum. Where audio-visual equipment is hired from us this will be set up by us in advance, except that on Tuesday to Sunday evenings set-up does not start until 1630.
We have excellent Internet access in the building. Wi-Fi is available in most of the building through our The Cloud hotspot. In addition we can provide an Internet connection almost anywhere in the building via our own network. If you require a computer we can arrange to hire one for you, but most clients bring their own laptop machines.
When delegates are coming from all over the place you need an accessible venue. We are within walking distance of FIVE stations: King's Cross main line (5 minutes), King's Cross Underground (5m), St. Pancras International (for Eurostar) (9m), Caledonian Road and Barnsbury (London Overground)(15m), and Euston (15m). There are six Underground routes serving King's Cross, and numerous bus routes. We provide a downloadable map for you to include in the joining instructions and there are street signs. We are London's easy-to-get-to venue. There are through trains to a station within 15 minutes' walk of the museum from numerous places including Edinburgh, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Nottingham, Leicester, Manchester, Birmingham, Brighton, Canturbury, Dover, Paris, Bruxelles, and Gatwick, Luton and Heathrow airports. We are the most interesting, attractive venue within a short walk of St. Pancras International.
