London Transport Museum offers two spaces for private events in Covent Garden: the Museum Galleries, which hold 230 guests at a seated dinner and 600 standing, and the Cubic Theatre with its adjoining Foyer, which seats 110. The museum sits in the Covent Garden piazza in central London and accepts bookings from companies and private hosts.
Seminars and company events
The Cubic Theatre is a purpose-built auditorium with 110 moquette seats. It suits conferences, training sessions and film screenings. A short-throw projector handles presentations, and a DCI/DCP projector with Dolby Digital surround sound covers full cinema playback. The Foyer next to it is used for registration, catering and breakout sessions, and it offers branding opportunities.
For smaller groups, the museum rents the Cubic Foyer as a boardroom-style meeting room. It lies below the cobbles of Covent Garden, is soundproofed and keeps the same distinctive seating as the theatre. The Museum Galleries serve a different kind of company event: dinners, award ceremonies, product launches and cocktail receptions.
The museum also runs Christmas parties in the galleries, and it hires the Acton Depot, where most of the collection is stored, for filming and photography.
Rooms and capacities
The Museum Galleries spread over two floors of exhibitions. Guests have the space to themselves and can walk among the historic red buses, trams and early Tube carriages. With the museum's caterers, the galleries accommodate up to 230 guests for a seated dinner and up to 600 standing.
The Cubic Theatre seats 110. Its Foyer handles arrivals, drinks and breakouts. The Cubic Foyer is the boardroom option for board meetings. The enquiry form on the museum's site lists four hire options: the Museum Galleries, the Acton Depot, the Cubic Theatre and Foyer, and London by Design.
Catering
The museum works with a selection of London caterers for events in the galleries. The site does not list menus or a single in-house caterer, so ask the events team which caterers are approved for the date and the space you want.
History and setting
London Transport Museum tells the history of the city's transport across two floors of galleries, with buses, trams and early Tube carriages on show. The building stands in the Covent Garden piazza, a few steps from the theatres, restaurants and shops of the area. The museum won Best Private Hire Venue at the inaugural London for Groups Awards in 2023 and reached the finals of two categories at the London Venue and Catering Awards in 2024.
Getting there
The museum is in the middle of Covent Garden, which makes it easy to reach on foot from Covent Garden and Leicester Square stations and from Charing Cross. Guests arriving from other parts of the city or from Heathrow can reach the piazza by Underground. Contact the events team through the venue hire page for access details for suppliers and deliveries.
