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Venue Tips
Three West Midlands
venues for culture vultures
Pictured: Birmingham Pictured:
Hippodrome Wolverhampton Art
Gallery
Pictured: Coventry
Transport Museum
The West Midlands is a
trove of venue secrets,
and there are treats
for those with cultural
inclinations
For your next event in the
West Midlands, consider
one of these cultural
venues, as recommended
by the West Midlands
Growth Company.
Birmingham Hippodrome
Birmingham Hippodrome is
one of the UK’s busiest
venues, welcoming on
average more than 840,000
visitors every year through
on-stage and off-stage
activities.
A short walk from
Birmingham New Street
station, the Hippodrome
offers a wide variety of
inspiring spaces for events
with spacious and versatile
facilities that can host
conferences, award
ceremonies and gala dinners
for 10 to 1,800 delegates.
The theatre – which
celebrated its 120th birthday
in 2019 – also allows you to
dine on the same stage as
your favourite productions in
the stunning auditorium for a
real show-stopping event.
Offering in-house technical
support and delicious on-site
catering, if you can imagine it,
Birmingham Hippodrome can
create it.
Website: www.birmingham
hippodrome.com
situated alongside the
museum’s collection. The
venue’s largest space – the
Singer Mezzanine Gallery –
has capacity for 260 in a
theatre layout. Other spaces,
which suit a mixture of
layouts and delegate
numbers, include the Starley
Suite, Bettmann Suite, Swift
Centre and Collins Room.
Website: www.transport-
museum.com
Wolverhampton
Art Gallery
Coventry Transport Museum
Located in the heart of the
city, Coventry Transport
Museum is home to the
world’s largest collection of
British road transport and
takes visitors on a journey
through the history of the
booming motor industry.
Offering everything from
pioneering bicycles to the
world’s fastest car, Coventry
Transport Museum is one of
a kind experience.
Private event spaces are
The award-winning
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
offers more than 300 years
of art, including fantastic
collections of Victorian and
Georgian paintings as well as
a nationally acclaimed Pop
Art collection. Current
exhibitions include Victoria &
Albert: Our Lives in
Watercolour (until 31 May)
from the Royal Collection.
The venue in Lichfield
Street offers a historic and
cultural location for corporate
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meetings, away days and
functions. There is a choice
of unique, impressive and
affordable spaces ranging
from stylish meeting rooms to
large gallery spaces with a
maximum capacity of 100
guests. There are also
additional options for gallery
hire and use of the whole
gallery out of opening hours.
Website: www.
wolverhamptonart.org.uk
Next year, Coventry will
become the UK City of
Culture 2021. The most
youthful, diverse UK City of
Culture to date, Coventry
will host a 12-month
programme ranging from
huge outdoor spectacles to
small intimate events, in
every corner of the city.
With events set to be
announced later this year,
in the meantime, why not
try one of these great
West Midlands cultural
venues?