Australian Museum
Unique Event Venues

The Australian Museum is a unique and inspiring location for your next special event. Offering a range of curated spaces suitable for corporate cocktails, banquet dinners, weddings, meetings and presentations.  With their exclusive hospitality partner onsite to assist with catering needs, the Australian Museum offer multiple spaces for you to host your next wonderous event.

Wild Planet

Beneath the 150-year-old whale skeleton, Wild Planet is sure to wow your guests with over 400 animal specimens on display highlighting global biodiversity.

Capacity

Cocktail - 200

Banquet - 80

Westpac Long Gallery

Australia's first museum gallery, dating back to 1857. This high-vaulted space features mezzanine balcony and a beautiful heritage staircase. Specimen cases that surround your guests house the 200 Treasures of the Australian Museum exhibition showcasing objects from the Museum's vast collection.

Capacity

Cocktail - 150

Banque - 90

Dinosaurs

Astounding specimens and dramatic dinosaurs bring this captivating space to life. Showcasing more than 10 lifesized dinosaur skeletons, the Dinosaurs gallery provides a unique setting for your cocktail reception.

Capacity

Cocktail - 230

Minerals

Impress your guests with cocktails among their dazzling display of 1800 rare sparking gemstones, from the earth's oldest rocks and minerals to specimens from outer space. Reflecting all the colours of spectrum, this gallery is spectacular.

Capacity

Cocktail - 150

Hintze Hall

Positioned in the heart of the Museum, where old meets new, Hintze Hall is a stylish and spacious room featuring the sandstone walls of the original Museum galleries dating back to 1827. Suitable for cocktail events and banquet dinners.

Capacity

Cocktail - 450

Banquet - 260

No.1 William

No. 1 William is a modern space that offers breathtaking views of St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney Harbour to Garden Island, Hyde Park and the city skyline. A balcony runs the full length of the room, with floor-to-ceiling windows providing panoramic views.

Capacity

Cocktail - 200

Banquet - 150

Harbour View Room

With views to St Mary's Cathedral and to the famous King Cross Coke sign, the Harbour View Room is a striking location for a daytime or evening function. A floor terrace floor to ceiling windows and terrace wrap around to ceiling windows wraps around two sides of the venue filling the room with natural light and offering a unique view of Sydney Harbour and the city skyline. The venue also features in-room audio visual facilities and in-room cameras to enable video conferencing for presentations and meetings.

Capacity

Cocktail - 100

Banquet - 80

Theatre - 60

Boardroom - 30

Lecture Theatre

The Lecture Theatre is equipped with audio-visual equipment including a large LED screen and in-room cameras to enable video conferencing. It is suitable for talks, meetings and presentations. Up to 30 additional seats may be set to increase capacity. The Lecture Theatre is not suitable for catered events. Please discuss your catering needs with them and they will beautify a suitable space for guest hospitality.

Capacity

Theatre Seating - 118

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