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Discovery Museum is one of Newcastle upon Tyne's best-known museums and also operates as a distinctive private and corporate events venue. Located on Blandford Square, approximately five minutes' walk from Newcastle Central Station, the Grade II-listed building combines historic architecture with modern event facilities. Its most prominent event space is the Great Hall, a large Art Deco/High Victorian-style room originally constructed as a meeting space for the Co-operative Wholesale Society in 1899. The venue offers a broad range of spaces, from intimate wood-panelled meeting rooms to large galleries and the Great Hall. Events can include conferences, weddings, dinners, corporate events, birthday parties, Christmas parties, proms, away days, board meetings and team-building activities. The Great Hall measures approximately 573 square metres and is equipped with a built-in stage, making it particularly suitable for conferences, dinners, wedding receptions, lectures and dances. The museum's galleries can also be hired for receptions and hospitality events, creating a distinctive museum setting around historic collections and the famous Turbinia steam turbine-powered vessel. The venue provides event support, catering, tables, chairs, crockery, cutlery, glassware and AV equipment. Accessibility is supported by lifts serving all floors.
The Great Hall is Discovery Museum's flagship event space. Measuring approximately 573 m², it features historic architecture, rich wood panelling, an arched ceiling, ironwork and a built-in stage. It can host conferences, dinners, wedding receptions, lectures and dances, with capacity for up to 300 guests for dinner/reception and 249 theatre-style under current fire regulations.
The Turbinia Gallery is the museum's dramatic central atrium and is centred around Turbinia, historically the world's fastest vessel and the first ship powered by steam turbines. It provides a distinctive setting for receptions and hospitality events, with current capacity of 150 standing or 100 for dinner.
The Science Maze Gallery provides an unusual museum setting for receptions and evening events. It can accommodate up to 100 guests standing. Because it is a gallery space, the venue specifies restrictions on liquids.
The Story of the Tyne Gallery provides another museum-based reception setting. The current venue capacity schedule gives it a maximum of 100 standing guests. Like the other gallery spaces, event use is subject to the museum's restrictions on liquids.
The Turbinia Room is a smaller meeting space suitable for meetings, presentations and hybrid conferences. It accommodates up to 35 theatre-style or 20 boardroom, and it is equipped for virtual conferencing, including Teams and Zoom-style hybrid meetings.
The Carpathia Room is an elegant wood-panelled meeting room originally associated with the Co-operative Wholesale Society's offices. It is suitable for meetings, away days, private lunches and smaller events. Current capacity is 40 standing/theatre and 20 boardroom.
The Mauretania Room is one of the smaller historic wood-panelled rooms. With its fixed furniture arrangement, it is intended primarily for small meetings or discussion groups and has a listed capacity of 15 standing.
The Northumbria Room is another intimate wood-panelled meeting space. It can accommodate approximately 15 people in theatre or boardroom configuration and is best suited to small meetings, interviews, discussions and private sessions.
For particularly large evening receptions, the museum can be hired across multiple areas. The current capacity schedule gives a maximum whole-museum standing capacity of 1,000. This is a combined venue capacity rather than a single room.
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