Award Ceremonies

What We Offer At A Glance

• A Victorian heritage waterside building on two floors, full of interest and exhibits but with space for your event
• fully accessible to disabled people
• Choose your own caterer if food required
• Tea/coffee before event can be provided
• Street parking is free 1830 until 0830 in the morning.
• Available daytime and evenings on Mondays, breakfast and evenings on other days
• Free event Wi-Fi
• Conference room can be booked for storage before/after the event.
• Excellent public transport access
• Experienced venue
• In-house audio-visual equipment available

Key Facts - more detail

• Up to 120 people in an ideal layout, up to 160 maximum, seated in a portrait-orientation layout where some delegates will be a little further from the front. In a dinner-style layout with round tables the maximum is 120.
• Choose your own caterer if food required. The museum can provide bar staff at we do the set-up but we don't provide or handle food
• We can offer tea/coffee before event if you wish
• Use the two floors for the awards presentation and the social event that follows
• It is reccommended that guests come by public transport but if some need to come by car there are parking meters in adjoining streets and free parking from 1830-0800 each evening.
• Available daytime and evenings on Mondays, breakfast and evenings on other days
• Conference room can be booked for storage before/after the event.
• Air conditioning
• Excellent public transport makes the museum a highly convenient location for the maximum number of people. King's Cross Underground and main line stations are just a five minute walk. Euston is a 15 minute walk. St. Pancras (for Paris, Bruxelles, the Easst Midlands, Sussex, and Kent) is just a ten minute walk away. Caledonian Road and Barnsbury (London Overground) is about a 10 minute walk.
• Both floors are accessible for wheelchair users. A lift links the ground floor to the mezzanine floor, and another links that level to the first floor. We have an accessible toilet on the ground floor.

Choices of style

We have hosted a number of awards events and the museum lends itself to this type of occasion. The first floor is ideal for presentations in front of a seated audience. The ground floor is ideal for the social and networking part of the evening that is usually included in the programme. The museum is ideal for events attended by 75-125 guests, but we can host up to 160 guests, theatre style, and up to 120, dinner style at round tables.

We offer a choice of cabaret style layout (maximum 80 people) where guests are seated at round tables and a space is left towards the front so that nobody sits with their back to the speaker, or 120 dinner style, where guests are seated all round the tables and chairs have to be turned to face the front. With theatre style layout, where guests are seated in rows without tables, the maximum is 120 seated in a "landsacpe" layout (more intimate) or 160 seated in a "portrait" style layout (more distance from the back to the speaker)

The usual format of an awards event is for the formal presentation of awards, speaches, etc. to be followed by a reception with drinks and either canapes or a buffet supper. This promotes networking amongst the guests and there is nowhere better than a museum to hold networking events, because a museum generates so many opportunities to start conversations. If desired, guests can be served with refreshments, typically tea/coffee, on arrival, before the main event.