Museum Hire

Interiors

Dear visitors, please note that our Piccture Gallery will be closed for a private event from 3 pm on Saturday 21 August.

Handel and Hogarth dined here, Rococo style!

Fine eighteenth-century interiors and England's first public art collection provide a unique backdrop for exclusive entertaining and events.

Court Room

The Court Room is one of London’s finest surviving Rococo interiors containing paintings, sculptures and a fine plasterwork ceiling and decorations. These combine to make the whole room a sumptuous work of art that can be used for intimate dinners for up to 30.

Picture Gallery

The Picture Gallery can accommodate dinners for as many as 100 and receptions for up to 200. It contains all the major portraits in the Collection and is a fitting setting for concerts, conferences and lectures.

As well as the Picture Gallery and Court Room there are less formal, contemporary rooms available for hire which would facilitate seminars and meetings. The museum has a list of approved caterers, florists and musicians.

The new museum is a stunning mix of historic and contemporary spaces and has modern catering facilities, making it an appropriate venue for a range of events and functions.

Coram’s Children Gallery

This contemporary gallery explores the Hospital’s poignant social history, displaying the Royal Charter granted by King George II and the moving tokens of love and remembrance left by inconsolable mothers, forced to give up their infant children. A truly moving venue!

Committee Room

The Committee Room displays nineteenth century paintings by the daughter of a former pupil, John Brownlow, who was the inspiration for Dickens’ Oliver Twist. It also shows Hogarth’s famous painting of the March of the Guards to Finchley. A truly magical venue!

Gerald Coke Handel Collection

The Museum’s second floor houses the largest private collection of Handel memorabilia and publications, including his will, contemporary manuscripts and artefacts and many scholarly works. A most musical venue!

Exhibition Gallery

This spacious, contemporary gallery may be hired for specific events or included in larger receptions during exhibitions. Check our exhibitions pages for further details of current and forthcoming exhibitions which range from historical material to contemporary art.