Huize Frankendael hosts business meetings for 2 to 300 people in an eighteenth-century country house at Middenweg 72, Amsterdam. The house offers salons, a modern boardroom, a garden room and a coach house, and its own restaurant, Merkelbach, caters in every space. Weddings and parties are also part of the offer.
Seminars and company events
The venue says it opens for business gatherings from 2 to 300 people: private dinners, training sessions, networking events and meetings. The eighteenth-century salons and nineteenth-century rooms suit formal formats. The coach house suits workshops and away days, and in good weather the style garden serves for breaks and breakout sessions.
Every room has free Wi-Fi. Projectors, screens and flip charts can be set up on request. The team adapts each setup to the organiser's brief and asks to be contacted directly for details, since the pages do not list capacities room by room.
Weddings and receptions
The house lists weddings and parties alongside business hire. The pages we could read give no capacity or room plan for these events, so ask the team which spaces suit your guest count. The salons, the garden room and the garden are the natural settings for a ceremony or reception.
Rooms and capacities
The boardroom is on the second floor, with a built-in projection screen and views of the garden and the city. Two breakout rooms sit on the same floor. On the principal floor, the salons overlook the gardens. The large salon has a fireplace from the former mayor's residence and an early Dutch rococo stucco ceiling. It serves for meetings and private dinners.
The Tuinkamer, or garden room, is an eighteenth-century extension with three windows on the garden. It works for private meetings or dinners and as a breakout room. The coach house stands on ground level next to the house. It has a mobile bar that can be used inside or outside, and a covered terrace beside it is reserved for the venue's guests.
Catering
Restaurant Merkelbach serves breakfast, lunch, drinks and dinner in every room, following Slow Food principles. Organisers deal with one kitchen for the whole day, from morning coffee to the evening reception.
History and setting
Frankendael is a historic house in a classically styled garden in the east of Amsterdam. The salons date from the eighteenth century and the other rooms from the nineteenth. The house is also used for art events and has an exhibition agenda, so it feels like a lived-in estate more than a conference center.
Getting there
The address is Middenweg 72, 1097 BS Amsterdam. Check the venue's contact page for transit directions.
