What better way to enjoy spring than to experience some of the amazing highlights our member venues have to offer when hosting your event in their magnificent buildings. Choose from viewing the latest exhibitions, enjoy out of hours tours and late night openings, view historic collections, experience the beauty of the world's greatest flower show, marvel in a flamenco festival or a live outdoor concert, dine with a multi-Michelin star and 5/5 AA Rosette winning chef, even welcome home the nations favourite dinosaur! There is so much on offer to bring your event to life, or you could just enjoy these wonderful highlights in your own time, catching up with friends and family.
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Reframed: The Woman in the Window:
4 May – 4 September 2022
This Spring Dulwich Picture Gallery presents Reframed: The Woman in the Window, the first exhibition to explore the enigmatic motif of the ‘woman in the window’.
Featuring artworks from ancient civilisations to present day, the exhibition will bring together over 50 works by artists including Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, David Hockney, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans and Rachel Whiteread to reveal how artists have long used the motif to elicit a particular kind of response ranging from empathy to voyeurism. Featuring sculpture, painting, print, photography, film and installation art, the exhibition will identify the key geographic locations, cultures and time periods for which the ‘woman in the window’ had a particular meaning and what the motif reveals about issues of gender and visibility.
The exhibition also features newly commissioned digital artwork. Inspired by recorded conversations with community members it will be a poignant moment in the exhibition, focusing on themes of identity and perspectives.
For further information and to book click here
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Did you know that all of the Foundling Museum’s Venue Hire packages include free admission to its historic collection and exhibitions?*
Tucked away in a leafy corner of Bloomsbury, the Foundling Museum is a tranquil, yet centrally located events venue in London: the perfect backdrop for any social event, meeting or party. Our opulent Court Room has one of the finest Rococo interiors in London and makes a stunning backdrop for an intimate dinner or drinks reception. Alternatively, the Georgian-style Picture Gallery makes an elegant choice for larger celebrations and events.
Give your guests a unique and unforgettable experience by hosting your next event at the Foundling Museum. Our newest exhibition, Superheroes, Orphans and Origins: 125 Years in Comics is the world's first major exhibition to explore the representation of foundlings, orphans, adoptees, and foster children in comics, graphic novels and sequential art from around the globe.
Income generated from venue hire supports the Foundling Museum’s vital and unique work with disadvantaged children and young adults.
*Admission to historic collection and exhibitions is available during Museum open hours on the date of hire, or during exclusive hire periods (as agreed/discussed with the Venue Hire Team).
With the countdown to the West Smithfield relocation underway, the Museum of London is looking ahead to a busy calendar of spring / summer events in the London Ellipse Hall before it closes at the end of the year. With warmer weather on the horizon and social events back on the company agenda, the London Ellipse Hall is the perfect setting for an awards ceremony, celebratory dinner, product launch or party this spring.
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. There is no better time to give your guests the experience of a night at the museum!
For further details please contact: venuehire@museumoflondon.org.uk
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Dippy, the nation’s favourite dinosaur to return to the Natural History Museum this spring!
It’s an exciting season at the Natural History Museum, with Dippy the Diplodocus is returning to the iconic London Museum after a tour that saw them meet over two million new friends around the UK.
Dippy, the 26-metre-long Diplodocus cast, will be returning to the Museum for a temporary installation after spending the past four years travelling the length and breadth the UK.
Along with the joy of reaching new swathes of the UK population, the tour has aimed to highlight the importance of tackling the current planetary emergency, educating and inspiring visitors to explore the nature on their own doorsteps and become advocates for the planet.
The special temporary installation at the Museum will give people the chance to see the nation’s favourite dinosaur in full splendour in South Kensington once again.
The display will be free to visit but booking tickets in advance will be required. You can sign up and be the first to hear when tickets will be available here: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit/exhibitions/dippy-returns.html
Dippy’s beautiful new display will also be available as part of the Museum’s venue hire bookings, so if you’re eager to dance, dine and celebrate in the company of the nation’s favourite dinosaur, get in touch with the team by emailing venues@nhm.ac.uk.
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Each year we invite members of the public to join us at the Royal Hospital Chelsea for a number of events.. We have a range of events taking place this year. Kicking off with something brand new to the Hospital – Salon Privé.
Salon Privé is a Luxury Car Event taking place on Thursday, April 21, 2022 - 12:00 to Saturday, April 23, 2022 - 18:30 and for three days only the public will have the chance to be part of the world of luxury cars—historic and modern—and to enjoy the exciting lifestyle that goes with this exclusive set.
Following this we have our renowned Chelsea Flower Show taking place Tuesday, May 24, 2022 - 08:00 to Saturday, May 28, 2022 - 20:00. It is the world’s greatest flower show showing off stunning garden designs, gorgeous floral displays, and endless shopping.
Just to top it off we then have our Live at Chelsea event Wednesday, June 15, 2022 - 18:00 to Sunday, June 19, 2022 - 22:00 featuring Tom Jones! We are so excited to welcome this event back after a two-year hiatus due to COVID.
RIBA at 66 Portland Place’s intriguing new exhibition – Radical Rooms: Power of the Plan - opens on 28th April. This exciting collaboration between architect Charles Holland and visual artist Di Mainstone explores the idea of power within architecture and the relationship between the two within the architectural plan and our domestic spaces.
Spanning nearly 500 years, the exhibition is anchored in three domestic buildings from the 16th, 18th, and 20th centuries: Hardwick Hall, A la Ronde and Hopkins House. Drawing on an alternative history of female protagonists Bess of Hardwick, Jane and Mary Parminter and Patty Hopkins, Radical Rooms uses stories from architectural history and highlights moments when the plan has challenged the conventions of domestic life. Visitors can experience their stories through elaborate costume design and an immersive audio-visual performance at 66 Portland Place.
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Royal Museums Greenwich are looking forward to a busy spring and summer with Fever UK’s Candlelight Concerts returning to their grounds through June and July. A selection of magical classical music set in their iconic outdoor space is a guaranteed winner and comes on the back of a 16 sold out dates there last year! RMG are even partnering with them to host an Italian themed series in August where tickets to the concert includes evening entry to Canaletto’s Venice Revisited exhibition at the National Maritime Museum.
Tickets are on sale from https://feverup.com/london/candlelight. It doesn’t end there though, with a full orchestral concert from Music at the Museums coming to Cutty Sark on 12th July. Tickets will be on sale on www.rmg.co.uk soon so keep an eye out! For more information, email events@rmg.co.uk.
Sadler’s Wells Flamenco Festival
This year’s much anticipated Flamenco Festival celebrates rising stars and Flamenco veterans. From traditional flair to flamenco with a twist! Artists include: Estrella Morente, Ana Morales, Tomatito, Maria Pages and a new UK premier by Jesús Carmona.
For further information about the festival and the programme please visit Sadler’s Wells website - https://www.sadlerswells.com/flamenco-festival-2022/.
Private event spaces and bespoke show packages are available for Flamenco Festival shows. Why not celebrate together with your colleagues and friends and have a drink in a private area prior to the show? Contact our Events team to discuss your event requirements.
Sadler’s Wells Events: events@sadlerswells.com
This year, Her Majesty The Queen will become the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee after 70 years of service.
To mark this extraordinary occasion, St Paul’s will hold a historic Service of Thanksgiving for The Queen’s reign on Friday 3rd June.
In May 2022, we open a brand new exhibition, Jubilee: St Paul’s, the Monarch and the Changing World, exploring the history of Jubilee celebrations at St Paul’s Cathedral across three centuries. Using intriguing and ornate objects from St Paul’s Archive and Collections, the exhibition tells the stories of Jubilee celebrations for four monarchs: King George III, Queen Victoria, King George V and HM Queen Elizabeth II.
Accompanying the exhibition is a special programme of events this year including late night openings in July and August.
Find out more at www.stpauls.co.uk
Missed your chance to immerse yourself in the now sold-out Yayoi Kusama exhibition ‘Infinity Mirror Rooms’ at Tate Modern? Give your guests the rare opportunity to view the show out of hours.
Tate Events can offer you private access to view the exhibition guided by one of Tate’s resident art experts, plus the chance to transform Tate Modern’s already visually-striking Level 4 Concourse in the Blavatnik Building with a Kusama-inspired event. Think Japanese-style tableware and floral arrangements, plus Kusama-inspired canapés developed by Tate Events Executive Chef Spencer Ralph. For the canapé selection, choose from a range of Japanese fusion delights such as ‘Duck, Kumquat and Rhubarb’, ‘Tuna, Shimeji and Togarashi’ and ‘Edamame, Wasabi and Radish’.
This exclusive experience with Tate is available until 11 June 2023 when the exhibition comes to a close.
For further details please contact: corporatehospitality@tate.org.uk
Upcoming Events - An evening of summer dining with Jean-Christophe Novelli
Jean-Christophe Novelli, multi-Michelin star and 5/5 AA Rosette winning Chef, Author, and Restaurateur will be hosting a summer dining evening at Twickenham Stadium on 07 July 2022.
This promises to be an evening of luxury, beginning with a sparkling drinks reception and canapes on arrival, before a wonderful three-course menu and all-inclusive drinks, all hosted in the surroundings of the stadiums most impressive East Stand suite, The East Wing. The evening will finish with an insightful Q&A with Jean-Christophe Novelli himself.
Tables for this fantastic event are now available from as few as 2 guests, up to tables of 10, and can be booked by visiting the Twickenham Stadium website.
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Installation view of A Century of the Artist's Studio: 1920-2020 at Whitechapel Gallery, 24 February - 5 June 2022. Courtesy of Whitechapel Gallery.
Come visit A Century of the Artist’s Studio: 1920 – 2020 at Whitechapel Gallery before it closes on 5th June!
Considered ‘a magnificent way of entering the minds of artists’ by Laura Cumming from The Observer, the exhibition offers incredible insight into the unseen world of the artist’s studio, with enticing works by the likes of Francis Bacon, Tracey Emin and Pablo Picasso.
Entry to this exhibition is included in all room hires that take place during public open hours, with the option to add an integrated expert-led tour to create an unforgettable experience for your guests.
For further details please contact: hire@whitechapelgallery.org