Functions
Ripples Express Maritime Museum provides the perfect backdrop and award winning dining to make sure your private event is truly special. The waterside venue is available for evening exclusive hire and can cater to both sit down or cocktail style events.
Our dedicated event coordinators are more than happy to tailor options to suit your individual requirements.
Ben Lexcen Terrace | Maritime Museum
Banquet - up to 270 / Cocktail - up to 400
Located on the boardwalk at the Maritime Museum, this spacious roof-top terrace offers spectacular city skyline views.
The Ben Lexcen Terrace is our star attraction in the heart of the museum's precinct - offering spectacular city skyline & harbourside views, an event on this spacious rooftop terrace guarantees glamour.
Ideal for cocktail functions, pre-dinner drinks, it's a versatile space that's perfect for your next unique or exclusive event, conference or product launch.
This space is often used in conjunction with other venues such as the Lighthouse Gallery.
Waterside Studio | Maritime Museum
Theatre - 70 / Banquet - 60 / Cocktail - 80 / Cabaret - 48 / U-Shape - 30 / Boardroom -36
A vibrant marina during the day, Sydney's city lights dazzle at night.
Host your next team event in this intimate harbourside space, the Waterfront Studio. Overlooking the Maritime’s famous fleet of heritage vessels and the Darling Harbour basin, this studio space is perfect for sparking creative ideas during team workshops, smaller sized meetings or breakouts from larger conference spaces.
Ideal for hosting post-team event cocktails and canapes. Flexible bi-fold glass walls can enclose or open up the space to your specific needs, providing easy access to our boardwalk.
This space is often used in conjunction with Ripples Waterside.
Lighthouse Gallery | Maritime Museum
Banquet - 250 / Dinner with Dance Floor - 220 / Cocktail - 400 / Cabaret - 200 / Theatre - 350
Floor-to-ceiling windows give your guests unparalleled water views.
The Lighthouse Gallery's expansive museum-style interior provides an awe-inspiring space to host product launches, gala dinners, cocktail events and conferences. Floor-to-ceiling windows give your guests unparalleled water views with a stunning CBD backdrop. The venue is also equipped with easy access for cars, boats or long vehicles that need access to a loading dock.
City View Room | Maritime Museum
Cocktail - 120 / Dinner - up to 110
Enjoy cocktails in Architecturally-designed style with our stunning waterfront location.
Nestled between HMAS Onslow (Navy submarine) and HMAS Vampire (Navy Destroyer), the City View Room features floor-to-ceiling windows offering stunning city views.
The museum’s City View Room is adjacent to the Naval Destroyer HMAS Vampire, the pavilion is a perfect wet weather option offering a unique waterfront experience.
Tasman Light Gallery | Maritime Museum
Cocktail - 250 / Dinner - 100 / Theatre - 180
Shine a light on your next event in a a unique space with quirky conversation pieces.
The Tasman Light Gallery is an extraordinary venue featuring the original glass lens from the old Tasman Island Lighthouse and a genuine Naval helicopter suspended above head from the ceiling. If you're looking for a unique space with quirky conversation pieces, this is the perfect setting for light refreshments, product launches, cocktail parties or as a special intimate dinner space.
Wharf 7 | Maritime Museum
Dinner - 80 / Cocktail - 100
An unconventional gallery space guaranteed to wow your guests.
An ideal venue for intimate events, Wharf 7 features legendary wooden vessels from the Sydney Heritage Fleet. Be inspired by sailing history, and architecturally designed high ceilings. Perfect for your next cocktail party, intimate dinner or boutique event.
An unconventional gallery space guaranteed to wow your guests, Wharf 7’s foyer features a light and airy space, natural timber surrounds and architectural design. Ideal for more intimate events, launches, dinners or even small performances (evening events only).
Ripples Waterside | Maritime Museum
Cocktails with Boardwalk/Performance platform - up to 650
Banquet - up 180 / Dinner with Dance Floor - up to 140
A vibrant marina during the day, Sydney's city lights dazzle at night, perfect for alfresco dining with stunning views.
Enjoy harbourside dining with a spectacular location at Ripples Waterside, an alfresco venue with stunning city views. Flexible bi-fold glass walls can enclose or open up the space to your specific needs, providing easy access to the boardwalk.
Ideal for cocktails with canapés or dinner with dancing, this stylish venue overlooks our historic vessel collection and the glamorous Darling Harbour precinct.
This space is often used in conjunction with Waterside Studio.
Terrace Room | Maritime Museum
Banquet - 130 / Dinner with Dance Floor - 110 / Cabaret - 80 / Theatre - 180 / Cocktails with balcony - 250
Brilliant by day, dazzling by night.
When you really want to impress, the Terrace Room at the Maritime Museum is the premier conference and dinner venue that gives you a stunning waterfront space with floor-to-ceiling windows showcasing spectacular views of Darling Harbour and the city skyline.
This space is a blank canvas for your individual style. The Terrace Room is an ideal venue for hosting gala dinners, cocktail events, trade shows and conferences.
The Theatre | Maritime Museum
Theatre - 210
State-of-the-art presentation equipment, plush seating and superb acoustics.
This purpose-built tiered theatre with unobstructed views of the screen is the ideal location to host your next corporate presentation or launch. With plush seating and superb acoustics, it’s the perfect way to enhance your corporate image for conferences, seminars, lectures and workshops.
The Theatre boasts state-of-the-art presentation equipment and facilities and can comfortably seat 210 guests. Venue hire includes data projection, screen and microphones.
The adjacent Tasman Light Gallery is the perfect place for registration and food and beverages.
HMAS Vampire (II) | Maritime Museum
Cocktails - 120 / Dinner - 50
Who could forget a wow-factor cocktail party hosted on board an ex-Naval destroyer moored at Darling Harbour?
Once a working vessel in the Royal Australian Navy, the upper decks and helipad of HMAS Vampire are perfect for unique photo opportunities and pre-dinner drinks, the helipad of HMAS Vampire offers a stylishly unique city location for your event.
Enjoy a cocktail while the sun sets over the harbour in this unique location is a genuinely unforgettable experience.
The Endeavour | Maritime Museum
Cocktail - 70 / Great Cabin Banquet - 12
Be swept up in splendour with this unique venue for cocktails or an intimate VIP dinner.
There’s no other ship like the meticulous replica of Captain Cook’s famous vessel. Moored right beside the museum on Darling Harbour, the replica of HMB Endeavour is a beautifully unique venue for cocktails on the quarterdeck or an intimate dinner in Cook’s Great Cabin.
Enjoy a tour of this beautiful ship, pre-dinner drinks on deck, exclusive VIP intimate dinners in the Great Cabin, or even a day sailing for a once-in-a-lifetime event.