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This is a truly unique experience for you to impress your guests as you sit back underneath the wings of the magnificent collection of aircraft in a fully heated hangar. You will be surrounded by spectacular exhibits and historic aircraft including the Comet and the Varsity. The space accommodates up to 300 guests theatre style and is ideally suited for receptions and exhibitions.

As well as a telescope, the celebrated physicist Bernard Lovell has a meeting room named in his honour at the Museum of Science and Industry. It is located on the second floor and can comfortably accommodate up to 40 people for training sessions, interviews or as a refreshment and breakout area. The room provides a range of equipment to aid presentations and the in-house events team can create bespoke menus to accompany all corporate events.

Depot is a 10,000-capacity venue with over 14,371m2 of flexible event space split across 2 large warehouses and 3 interlinking archways. The multiple event spaces of varying capacities lend themselves to events of any size, from 50 to 10,000. The venue's city centre location is in easy reach from anywhere in the UK and is conveniently a 2 minute walk from Piccadilly Train Station. Depot launched spectacularly and is now available to host brand activations, conferences, drinks reception & dinners, product launches, film & production sets, festival & ticketed events, exhibitions and culture.

The Club Room is an airy and bright self-contained event space with minimal furniture, a private bar, projector and screen, private bathrooms, full AV sound system and DJ booth. This versatile space lends itself to a variety of events including networking, finger food and drinks affairs and Christmas parties for up to 200 people on a casual and relaxed mix and mingle basis.