Event Spaces - Please Touch Museum Skip to primary navigation Memorial Hall Explore Our Event Spaces Memorial Hall and Please Touch Museum transforms into an amazing venue for special events in a matter of hours! From fundraisers and galas, to weddings and proms, holiday parties and social gatherings — Memorial Hall offers many unique spaces for small intimate celebrations to grand affairs! Learn more about our event spaces below. South Foyer This entrance to Hamilton Hall provides a grand entryway, a ceremony and pre-function space, or increased seating capacity for larger events and seated dinners. Reception: 450 Seated: 250 Hamilton Hall A versatile space with distinctive architecture that can transform with dramatic uplighting by our partner Synergetic, Hamilton Hall features 60-foot ceilings, a soaring dome, a four-story-tall replica of the Statue of Liberty’s arm and torch made of toys, and a dance floor on marble. The event space can be arranged in many ways, creating an ambiance to reflect the occasion. Reception: 650 Seated: 550 Seated with dance floor: 360 Independence Blue Cross Carousel House A fully restored Dentzel Carousel from the early 1900s featuring hand-carved animals within a 9,000-square-foot enclosure including a separate entrance and driveway is a unique setting for any event. Reception: 200 Seated: 150 River Adventure Guests can enjoy cocktails and bites alongside a 70-foot flowing river while overlooking a towering tree in the River Adventure exhibit. Reception Only: 250 Roadside Attractions A bustling Philadelphia neighborhood is inside! Surrounded by a hand painted mural of the city skyline, guests can enjoy lite bites and conversation surrounded by a SEPTA Bus, the Please Touch Garage, a city street vendor and Bassett’s Ice Cream Stand. Reception Only: 250 Centennial Innovations & Center Core History enthusiasts will enjoy gathering around the Centennial Fairgrounds Model handcrafted in 1889. The 1:192 scale model features all 200 original buildings and the surrounding fairgrounds from the 1876 World’s Fair. Reception: 150 Seated: 90 East Meeting Room The perfect off-site meeting room with built-in A/V technology that can accommodate Zoom and Teams for off-site attendees. Room can be configured in several ways. Capacity: 50 Full Museum Buy-Out Memorial Hall and Please Touch Museum are available for full museum buy outs for large-scale or exclusive events. Interested in activations in our exhibit spaces led by the Museum education team during your event? Learn more about facilitated experiences at Please Touch Museum. Maximum Capacity: 3,000 Let’s Start Planning Select the type of event you are planning below to learn more about our offerings and to contact a member of our events team. Weddings at Memorial Hall Plan your dream wedding Special Occasions & Galas Plan a special occasion Facilitated Experiences Plan a unique event 2026 Event Rentals Plan a 2026 event Manage Consent To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions. Functional Functional Always active The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. Preferences Preferences The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user. Statistics Statistics The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you. Marketing Marketing The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. Manage options Manage services Manage {vendor_count} vendors Read more about these purposes View preferences {title} {title} {title}