Looking for a dynamic event site with a new theme? Transportation-related venues offer a step into history with a variety of museums, and other spaces to accommodate meetings, team-building activities and galas. Event planners at Star Entertainment Worldwide have a few suggested venues, from the adventuresome to the romantic.
There is no more exciting event than at one of 2 locations (VA and D.C.) of the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum (NASM). For special events from 200 to 7000 guests, multiple locations are available for your group to enjoy cocktails beneath Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis with dinner in the Rockets Hall. Or plan a unique team building exercise on flight simulators, or as a scavenger hunt at the U. S. Space & Rocket Center, known as "Space Camp."
For auto enthusiasts, Star Entertainment Worldwide clients have enjoyed evening galas at the Antique Auto Museum (Hershey, PA) and 1 hour from Nashville, at the National Corvette Museum (Bowling Green, KY). These spaces also offer great spaces for team building exercises, including the popular scavenger hunts among artifacts.
But the most romantic form of transportation, and most luxurious of all venues involve the railroad. Our event planners suggest a few historic venues for meetings, board dinners or larger corporate events. The Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, and the Strasburg Railroad, both in scenic Lancaster County, PA, housing collections of vintage engines and passenger cars, from steam to diesel and electric, with working trains (some lines operating for 125 years) for meeting groups to ride and dine. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Museum, with its 1884 Baldwin Roundhouse can handle between 450 to 3000 guests for daytime meetings indoors or in their outdoor Pavilion. The Connecticut Trolley Museum is ideal for groups under 100, that can ride on mid-20th century railcars, enjoy a historical narration in the on-site theater, and a reception in the visitor center. In Virginia's Roanoke Valley, the O. Winston Link Museum celebrates the romance of railroad travel through the eyes of Link's artistic photography, and provides the backdrop for meetings in a 75 seat theatre, and receptions in the adjacent lobby.
The transportation theme, for small meetings, team building events or gala receptions, can be brought to life through these historic backdrops.
