Gallery Meetings

Experienced, attractive, unusual venue on Mondays, breakfast-time, and evenings

Venue Hire

This page is about meetings that are for more than 12 people, but fewer than around 30 delegates. There is no fixed dividing line between a meeting and a conference but the aim of this page is to tell you about what we offer for meetings that will fit wholly in one of our galleries, but that are too large for our small meeting room.

What We Offer At A Glance

Boardroom layout for about 18 people surrounded by exhibits

Key Facts in More Detail

Tranquil Waterside London

London Canal Museum is an attractive unusual hertage conference venue with abundant character. Although located just five minutes' walk from King's Cross station it is in a peaceful waterside location beside an urban canal beauty spot. It is an interesting, historic building with the convenience of an unrivalled location close to excellent transport. We have a great deal of experience and are well equipped to host your London meeting.

Layout and Capacity

We host "cabaret style" conferences where delegates are seated at round tables, "theatre style" conferences where delegates are seated in rows facing a presenter, and "boardroom style" conferences for smaller numbers where delegates sit at tables arranged in a horse-shoe fashion. The maximum in boardroom style is 30. Other styles can be a lot larger - see conferences page.

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Large Picture Gallery

Furniture

We have a range of furniture available including 10 folding oblong tables, and 12 round tables (5' diameter). There are attractive blue upholstered chairs suitable for conference use. For business conferences, all set up and putting-away of furniture is normally carried out by us and is included in your quotation.

We provide luxury disposable table cloths, included in the charge, for cabaret-style meetings. Disposable table cloths can be used for brainstorming and taken away at the end of the event - write down your inspired ideas with us!

Large boardroom for 30 people with space in middle and screen

Catering

We offer an optional tea/coffee/biscuits service. 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! For the smallest meetings of 20 or fewer we may alternatively offer a self-service facility that si more flexible but more basic and more economical.

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 and soft drink glassware is available for hire.

The most common arrangement for a gallery meeting is the delivery of a cold buffet by a caterer, who sets it out on tables provided free by us during the morning. If providing the coffee/tea service we can do the clearing-up after lunch at no extra cost.

We offer fruit juices at £2 per litre carton including glasses, on a semi-self-service basis.

In good weather your delegates may take lunch outside to eat on the waterside.

Storage before and after

The meeting 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.

Audio-Visual & Internet

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, 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 on Mondays or for a breakfast event this will be set up by us in advance.

We have excellent Internet access in the building. Free Wi-Fi is provided for delegates. If you require a computer we can arrange to hire one for you, but most clients bring their own laptop machines.

Boardroom layout set up alongside brick walls with screen

So easy to get to

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, East Midlands, Kent, Sussex) (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.

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