Science Museum, Exploring Space

For more than 150 years, the Science Museum has been educating and entertaining visitors and has occupied its current building since 1928. Just as the progress of science is constantly advancing and expanding, so the Science Museum has expanded, continually updating and adding ever more exciting and dynamic exhibitions and venues. Even now, there is a masterplan to create a system of new galleries opening in 2013 and beyond.

After almost 40 years of showcasing real rockets and spacecraft, don’t miss your last chance to host an ‘out-of-this-world event’ in Exploring Space! Our Exploring Space gallery will close after 22 April as part of an ambitious transformation of our ground floor galleries meaning now is the last chance to host an event in this incredible space.

Exploring Space is one of the Science Museum’s most popular attractions. This evocative gallery tells the fascinating story of space exploration and showcases satellites, probes, landers and actual space rockets.

Available for evening hire, this out-of-this-world location is the ideal landing site for a drinks reception for up to 300 people or dinner for up to 180.

As you enjoy your event experience you can find out how the Space Age started with the launch of Sputnik 1 and explore how we’ve sent spacecraft to other planets, walked on the Moon and peered into the heart of our galaxy and beyond.

Your guests can marvel at a full-sized replica of the ‘Eagle’, the lander that took the astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin to the Moon in 1969, and the Soyuz TMA-19M descent module that Tim Peake returned to earth in on 18 June 2016.