Albert Hall hosts conferences of up to 450 people in theatre layout, seated dinners for 400 and receptions for up to 800 guests across its spaces. The venue combines a former cinema and a 1930s ballroom on Chaussée de Wavre in Etterbeek, Brussels, a few minutes from the European district.
Seminars and company events
The building is set up for conferences, roadshows, product launches and award evenings. The main hall is a column-free room with high ceilings, a 40 m² podium and a 9 m projection screen that disappears behind motorised curtains. Sound, projection and control systems are installed and ready to use, so a plenary session needs little extra equipment. The Chaplin Auditorium on the top floor seats 100 on tiered bleachers and can relay a session from the main hall, which lets up to 700 people follow the same conference. Two 50 m² rooms, Universal and Paramount, each take 40 people in theatre layout or 24 around a U-shape and serve as breakout rooms. The venue lists five meeting rooms in all, plus reception areas, two large cloakrooms and a goods lift rated for one ton.
Rooms and capacities
The total floor area is about 2,500 m². The Albert Hall room covers around 420 m²: 450 in theatre layout, 250 in classroom, 80 in a U-shape, 400 at a seated dinner and 600 for a cocktail. The Roseland Ballroom covers 670 m² with a 37 m² stage, a bar and a mezzanine; it takes 360 in theatre layout, 240 in classroom and 360 for dinner or cocktails. The Chaplin Auditorium (220 m²) seats 100 in theatre layout or 60 in a U-shape, and its 100 m² lobby holds 120 for a reception or 50 in theatre layout. Each main room has its own projector, screen and L-Acoustics sound. Technical plans, 3D files and an audiovisual sheet can be downloaded from the venue's site.
Catering
The building has equipped kitchens and dedicated service areas for a catering team, with the main kitchen next to the Albert Hall room. The site does not say whether a caterer is imposed; the venue publishes a list of partners, and an events team helps plan the service.
History and setting
Albert Hall started life as a cinema and was renovated for events. The Roseland Ballroom is an Art Deco dance hall from the 1930s, restored with its brass railings, parquet floor, raised side platforms and stage. The two rooms sit side by side in the same block, so a conference in one can be followed by a dinner or a party in the other without moving guests outside.
Getting there
Guests enter at Avenue Eudore Pirmez 9 or at Chaussée de Wavre 649; a service entrance at number 653 is used for deliveries. Bus lines 34 and 36 and tram 81 stop next to the building. For drivers, the covered Etterbeek Town Hall car park, about 300 m away, offers around 80 places by day and 95 in the evening, and up to 200 on-street places on Avenue du 2e Régiment de Lanciers can be reserved, with shuttles. Parking must be requested through the venue a month ahead. A private area beside the building takes five cars and about four delivery trucks.
