Autumn in London not only provides an array of colour with the changing of the leaves within London's parks and gardens, but it is a wonderful time to watch an inspirational live performance, enjoy spooky goings on for Halloween, be the first to see a brand new exhibition at one of London's world famous galleries or museums, experience an atmospheric candlelit tour through classical civilization, join a fascinating talk with world-leading scientists or take part in a future superhero's craft workshop. Don't just treat your friends and family this autumn with these exciting activities but see how you could delight your colleagues and guests by making these part of your next event.
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Autumn a Battersea Arts Centre:
Lots of exciting events here at BAC this autumn! Our new cafe is open from 9:30am-4pm, Monday-Friday and the newly refurbished Tap Room with a brand new pre-show menu!
Thinking about hosting your event here? Guests can choose between our stunning award winning Grand Hall, or our historic Council Chamber. We have a wealth of experience hosting weddings and events of all sizes, creating unique events that simply can’t be reproduced elsewhere.
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Performances:
- 22-30th October: Enviro Takeover: a half term interactive storytelling experience, for young people and families.
- 1-3rd November: Tans: TANZ dissects traditional dance and theatre narratives enjoying cult status!
- 6th December - 8th January: Little Red Robin Hood: a brand new festive tale, full of songs, live music and interaction for all!
Autumn at the British Library is always an exciting time, where every hour is golden hour throughout our spaces.
Starting this month and through to 19 February 2023, visitors can take a trip through history and discover the stories surrounding Alexander the Great in our latest exhibition ‘Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth’. When it comes to making myths, Alexander the Great’s story has it all.
Whether you are hosting a dinner, reception, or special event, we offer elegant and versatile spaces to suit any occasion. Contact the team on CentralEventsTeam@bl.uk
Halloween at Chiswick House & Gardens - 20th – 31st October 2022
There are spooky goings on this Halloween at Chiswick House!
Join with family and friends to wander from dusk into darkness between one ghostly space to another. Watch out for flickering flames in a fiendish fire garden, daring fire artists and grinning pumpkins aglow. Wind your way through the illuminated haunted woods filled with creepy neon cobwebs, ghastly ghouls, wicked witches, larger-than life spiders and beastly bats. Then discover a Secret Garden filled with more hidden surprises. Could it be a trick of the light or do things really do go “bump in the night”?
There’s a delicious twist to the sweetest of treats on offer. Enjoy a fiendishly good hot toddy or devilishly decadent hot chocolate and toast a marshmallow with someone special.
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This October, The Courtauld is launching three brand new exciting exhibitions across the Gallery as part of our new Autumn Exhibition Season, helping us celebrate one year since our grand reopening.
In our Denise Coates Exhibition Galleries, guests can find an exciting exhibition by eccentric 18th century artist, Henry Fuseli, which explores the artist’s fascination with the modern woman and provides an insight into 18th and 19th century anxieties about gender and identity during a transformative period in European history.
Our Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery features a remarkable exhibition on a forgotten female abstract artist, Helen Saunders, with our Project Space presenting a display centred on a lost piece created by Saunders in the early 1900s, which was magnificently rediscovered in 2019 by two of the Courtauld’s students as part of their studies.
All exhibitions are open to the public to visit or can be included as part of a venue hire event, with our fantastic Courtauld Experts on hand upon request to impart expert insight into our temporary exhibitions and permanent collection. For further details on how to give your guests a completely unique and elevated event experience this Autumn, please click here!
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Host your event and enjoy time with family, friends and colleagues in the stunning Foundling Museum this autumn. Just 10 minutes from Kings Cross St Pancras and Euston stations, our beautiful event spaces and historic rooms come to life in the autumn months.
Visitors this autumn will be able to explore our new exhibition, Tiny Traces: African & Asian Children at London’s Foundling Hospital. Daytime guests enjoy complimentary access to the museum – providing the perfect break from a full- or half-day conference. Alternatively, drinks receptions and dinner guests get exclusive access to the whole Museum, allowing you to explore the collections and new exhibition at your leisure with drinks and canapés.
For further information please contact events@foundlingmuseum.org.uk
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Elmer storytelling with Mama G
Why not get ready to sing, dance, laugh and celebrate being YOU at the Horniman this October half-term. These thirty-minute sessions of stories and songs are all about being who you want and loving who you are.
Mama G has been working with Andersen Press and sharing Elmer’s stories for the last three years. The books have taken her to major events including Hull’s Big Malarkey and Gloworm Festival, as well as libraries around the country in support of the Book Trust’s Summer Reading Challenge.
When she’s not hanging out with Elmer, Mama G shares her own stories at schools, theatres, nurseries, museums, prides and festivals all over the UK. She has told stories for Disney, HSBC, the South Bank Centre, Unicorn Theatre and even ZSL London Zoo. She also appears in pantomime every Christmas, as well as writing, directing and producing the panto at Stanley Arts in South Norwood and writing and directing the summer panto for Haven Holidays.
Mama G can’t wait for you to join her at the Horniman this October half-term!
For further information visit here
Alternatively take part in a Future Superheros Craft Workshop - Create a superhero of the future this Black History Month, cutting and collaging with recycled materials.
This workshop, led by artist Habiba Nabisubi, takes inspiration from traditional African artefacts in the Horniman’s collections, black comic book characters from Habiba’s personal archive, and afrofuturistic artworks from the 1960s onwards. Who will your fantastical Future Superhero be?
On 8 October 2022, the Museum of Brands in Notting Hill, West London, opened a new temporary display,
Aide-mémoire: Shopping Lists
The new display is an intimate look at our consumer habits in the 21st century. Each list gives a personal insight into trends and tastes, the continuing popularity of old favourites, the mundane and the downright bizarre. From the spelling and handwriting to the paper they are written on and the order they are written in, the lists expose people's choices, their habits, their celebrations, and the things they find important. They show a snapshot of everyday domesticity in 21st century England and share a glimpse into a person’s life through the items we buy and the little notes we leave to ourselves.
Take a look at the new display, from the 8th of October 2022 to the 31st of March 2023 at the Museum of Brands in Notting Hill.
For further details click here
With the countdown to the Museum of London’s relocation to West Smithfield well underway, clients can host their Autumn events in the spectacular London Ellipse Hall for the final time. Whether it’s an end of year awards celebration, client dinner, product launch or a Christmas party, the London Ellipse Hall is a stunning setting for a memorable event.
With capacity for up to 600 guests for drinks receptions and up to 400 for dinners, the London Ellipse Hall features London’s only fully commissionable circular LED ellipse with integrated plasma screen for bespoke branding. Clients can also hire the Entrance Hall as part of their event, as well as one or more of the galleries to give their guests a unique and limited time only opportunity to explore the history of London at London Wall before the West Smithfield relocation. Autumn is the perfect time to give your guests a once-in-a-lifetime experience of a night at the museum at London Wall.
To book the London Ellipse Hall or any of the other spaces at the Museum of London, email venuehire@museumoflondon.org.uk or call 020 7814 5789.
This Autumn the Museum of London Docklands will explore how public executions shaped Londoners’ lives and the city’s landscape in a major new exhibition, Executions. From Smithfield to Southwark, from Banqueting House to Newgate Prison, executions became embedded in London’s landscape from the 12th century right through to the 19th. From October, the museum is bringing the rarely told and often tragic human stories behind these events to its new exhibition.
Executions will showcase a range of fascinating objects, paintings, and projections, including the vest said to have been worn by King Charles I when he was executed, a recreation of the Tyburn gallows with an immersive projection, last letters of the condemned and much more.
Clients hosting events at the museum between October 2022 – April 2023 have the opportunity to include a private viewing of the exhibition to really enhance the event experience for delegates.
To enquire about including the Executions exhibition as part of your next event at the Museum of London Docklands, email venuehire@museumoflondon.org.uk or call 020 7814 5789.
Museum of the Order of St. John
We’re holding a special Halloween version of our Escape Room on Saturday 29 October!
Session 1: 17:30- 18:30
Session 2: 19:00-20:00
It’s the cusp of All Hallows' Eve in 18th century London and a chilly wind is blowing through Clerkenwell. Upstairs in St John’s Gate there is a secret that needs to be uncovered. One of the journalists at The Gentleman’s Magazine has been leaking state secrets. The reporters have sloped off to the Jerusalem Tavern and while they’re gone we need your help to uncover who the culprit is.
You will be led up a winding wooden staircase to the Council Chamber, the very room in which the writers of The Gentleman's Magazine hatched their plans to commit these treasonous acts. Once inside you will have to harness all your powers of deduction to follow a series of clues and uncover who is responsible.
We cannot be sure just how long the writers will spend in the pub, so your snooping must be quick. You will only have one hour to get to the bottom of the mystery.
We allow a maximum of 6 players for the Escape Room and drinks will be offered at the end of the game- all this snooping is thirsty work!
The Council Chamber is on the first floor at the heart of the historic Tudor gateway, accessible by stairs only. Please contact us if you require level access as it is possible to relocate the Escape Room to the ground floor out-of-hours: museum@sja.org.uk
It’s £140 for a group of six and tickets can be booked via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/halloween-special-escape-room-tickets-431610678157
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Situated on London’s tree-lined Portland Place, RIBA at 66 Portland Place is a beautiful setting for special events, particularly during Autumn when the trees change colour and leaves fall. The versatile RIBA Gallery and atmospheric Aston Webb room are perfectly placed within the building to take advantage of this stunning view.
If you’re hosting an event for bigger numbers, the Florence Hall with capacity for up to 400 guests is the perfect option and also benefits from unique views courtesy of its floor to ceiling windows. And if the autumn breeze is not too cold, the Florence Hall terrace features a living wall which provides year-round colour.
To enhance the experience for guests attending events at 66 Portland Place this Autumn, the venue’s Practice Space, which showcases recent works by architecture practices around the globe, will feature the built projects of Atelier Deshaus, which guests can explore from 17th October – 26th November 2022. The projects have helped define an emerging sense of public space within the radically growing city of Shanghai, contributing an unmissable strand of contemporary architecture in China’s most international metropolis.
To book an event at RIBA at 66 Portland Place this Autumn, contact the team by emailing venuehire@riba.org or call 020 7307 3888.
The Royal Institution of Great Britain
An Autumn of exploration at the Royal Institution
London’s Royal Institution, famous in the UK’s rich heritage of scientific discovery, is one of our sought-after venues by those looking to walk in some truly world-famous footsteps.
And alongside prestigious events, this independent charity also welcomes world-leading scientists to give public talks in its historic 400-seat Theatre, two or three times a week. Every speaker follows famous predecessors: Faraday, Davy, Curie, Marconi, Tesla and more.
This Autumn you can explore the world of science, through accessible talks for all ages. From Crystals, chaos and the wizardry of physics for the grown-ups, to Fire chemistry, and more, for a family audience.
Check out the Ri’s what’s on pages and take your pick from the fascinating talks in its Theatre and online this Autumn. Visit its free museum at the same time. And when you get home, enjoy the CHRISTMAS LECTURES on BBC Four between Christmas and New year.
This Autumn sees the launch of the Science Museum’s exciting new exhibition, Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination. This immersive, genre-defying exhibition is a fantastic add-on for events and is guaranteed to keep your guests entertained, engaged, and intrigued as they embark on a once in a lifetime adventure through the cosmos to explore visions of the future through the science of today. View here for more details.
Guided by an artificial intelligence of alien origin, your guests will be placed at the heart of an exciting science fiction story. Board and explore a unique spaceship, scout an unknown planet, and investigate how scientists and science fiction creators have imagined and built new worlds to better understand our own.
Throughout this interactive voyage, guests can uncover hidden gems including authentic objects from celebrated movies, TV, and books, as well as paintings, artworks, and photography.
Science Fiction can be hired exclusively alongside the Energy Hall or Exploring Space gallery, which can be hired from 18:00 – 23:30. The Science Fiction experience lasts approximately 60 minutes and can be followed by a drinks reception or dinner.
If you’d like to start your own space voyage, contact the team now by calling 020 7942 4340 or emailing venuehire@sciencemuseum.ac.uk
Photo by Tom Ryley © Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
See the Soane by Candlelight
Every Autumn sees an increase in bookings for our Candlelit evening events, where Sir John Soane’s Museum is at its most atmospheric. Thrown into shadow and illuminated from below by flickering candles, the collections really do seem to come to life as our expert curators take guests on a tour through classical civilization, Canaletto’s Venice and Regency London. The night includes a half hour drinks reception, ideal for business networking or catching up with friends, with the option to drink Ruinart, Soane’s favourite brand of Champagne.
Our other popular candlelit events are Soane Lates. Back after a brief summer hiatus, our upcoming lates will include special behind the scenes tours of our latest exhibition Neighbours in Space and Time: Grafton Architects at the Soane Museum while our December late will transport you back to Regency Christmas with carol singing and festive themed drinks.
Autumn at St Paul’s Cathedral is their season of remembrance, with services for All Souls Day on the 2nd November, and a Service of Remembrance on the 13th November to remember all those who have lived and died in defence of justice and freedom.
On Sunday 11th November there will be a prayer and two-minute silence on the West steps at 10.55am. They are also happy to be taking part in Lord Mayor’s Show Day again – this year on Saturday 12th November – with free entry to the Cathedral and fun activities, as well as £10 entry to the Dome galleries. Find out more at https://www.stpauls.co.uk/whats-on/lord-mayors-show-day-st-pauls
World Rugby Museum Murder Mystery Family Tour
Looking for a fun Halloween-related activity this October Half Term? Discover the World Rugby Museum’s Murder Mystery Family Tour at Twickenham Stadium on Wednesday 26 October.
Through an immersive experience, families will step back in time and work as detectives to solve rugby related crime, using diligent detective skills, analysing a crime scene, piecing together alibis, and cross-examining key witnesses.
Learn more about this thrilling family experience and secure your place by visiting www.worldrugbymuseum.com
Image credit: Zadie Xa: House Gods, Animal Guides and Five Ways 2 Forgiveness, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 20 September 2022 – 30 April 2023. Photo: Andy Keat
Host your Event at Whitechapel Gallery this autumn
With the new academic year well underway we are preparing for a busy autumn of hybrid conferences and live streamed events in our unique, purpose-built Zilkha Auditorium. If you are looking to host a research conference or gather colleagues for an offsite presentation, Whitechapel Gallery houses a host of beautiful, versatile spaces and our striking 96 seater auditorium with its colourful seating design is sure to help your event stand out. For October 2022 through to January 2023 we are pleased to offer a discount of -15% when the Auditorium is hired alongside our Gallery 3 breakout space (T&C's apply).
Get in touch via email to check availability or call us on 020 7539 3325 to discuss your event requirements.
2022 through to January 2023 we are pleased to offer a discount of -15% when the Auditorium is hired alongside our Gallery 3 breakout space (T&C's apply).
Get in touch via email to check availability or call us on 020 7539 3325 to discuss your event requirements.