Providing first-class hospitality with unique venues, friendly hosts and plenty of things to do after the work is done, Lincoln is eager to host your next meeting or event. Located in the middle of everything, Lincoln offers clean, safe and affordable options for you to enjoy and explore.
Offering luxurious accommodations in downtown Lincoln, Embassy Suites Lincoln is just minutes from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Haymarket and other popular Lincoln destinations. One of Nebraska’s premier hotels, it is perfect for business travel, meetings, weddings and vacations, with 16 meeting rooms, nearly 12,000 square feet of meeting space and an event space capacity of up to 1,490.
A unique stop in Lincoln’s Downtown area, The Graduate Lincoln sits just steps away from the University of Nebraska city campus. The Nebraska-themed rooms give a nod to Nebraska’s colorful past while playing host to beautiful weddings, corporate meetings, educational events and down-home fun. The Graduate Lincoln contains 5,555 square feet of meeting space, 12 meeting rooms and capacity for events up to 650.
A cornerstone of Lincoln’s downtown, the iconic Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel is just steps away from dozens of restaurants, theaters, live music, art galleries, shopping and more, ensuring a great time for any guest for any event. The Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel offers 300 rooms with 27 different meeting rooms and capacity for events of up to 1,100.
The Scarlet Hotel is the perfect blend of small-town generosity and genuine connection, designed to celebrate Nebraska in every way. Features include 154 unique rooms, a full-service restaurant, coffee shop, fitness facility, rooftop bar and additional high-end features. A hub of modern style and innovation, this unique property is conveniently situated next to the NIC Conference Center.
Pinnacle Bank Arena recently celebrated 10 years of operations, with hundreds of concerts, sporting competitions and other ticketed events having taken place to large and supportive crowds. The anchor to Lincoln’s West Haymarket Redevelopment Project, the 470,400 square-foot arena seats 16,000 and offers year-round entertainment and has an array of usable meeting space to serve an event of any size, which includes full food and beverage service.
The Lied Center for Performing Arts boasts a seating capacity of 2,200 in the main auditorium with over 21,000 square feet of space, attracting concerts, musicals and performances from all over the globe. With window walls looking out northeast to the UNL campus, the scenery provides a nice backdrop for these unique meeting spaces.
Located on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Innovation Campus (NIC), the NIC Conference Center is housed in a historic building, providing a unique full-service conference center, featuring a 400-seat auditorium with state-of-the-art studio and visual capabilities. Additional meeting space includes a 400-seat banquet room, eight breakout rooms and other collaborative spaces.
Small meetings, large corporate events and everything in between are on the menu at the Lancaster Event Center. The facility’s design allows for diverse use of space and functionality, with the venue able to accommodate groups as small as five but as many as 5,000 people. The LEC facility includes five major interconnected structures, two multi-purpose arenas and three multi-purpose pavilions.
Lincoln has a variety of activities you can check out once the meetings are over for the day.
The burgeoning Telegraph District is located just east of Lincoln’s downtown with new retail shops, meeting space, apartments and more dotting the landscape. The Telegraph District is also located next to walking and biking trails with abundant neighborhood shops providing excellent coffee, food and community space for concerts, gatherings and other events. Development of the area continues with more and more people coming to congregate, live, work and enjoy the new offerings just blocks from the heart of downtown Lincoln.
Morrill Hall is the state of Nebraska’s premier natural history museum, home to a large and diverse collection of fossils and interactive exhibits, and also houses the Mueller Planetarium. The Sheldon Museum of Art houses a comprehensive collection of American art, including monumental sculptures and nearly 13,000 artworks in diverse media.
Other attractions, such as Robber’s Cave, will definitely entertain your guests and leave them wanting to explore even more. The cave is featured as a nationally registered Historic Landmark and featured in Atlas Obscura, among other places. As Lincoln’s only underground attraction, tours are available year-round, seven days a week and provide an interesting history of Lincoln with exciting stories and more.
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