Marlborough House
28-32 Victoria Street
Belfast BT1 3GG
Marlborough House is home to 70 Vault artists plus our public facing Gallery & Project space. Each month we show a new multidisciplinary exhibition alongside a busy programme of events throughout the year.
Getting here & access.
Accessibility: Vault Marlborough House covers 5 floors served by a lift. Our gallery & project space is on the ground floor and our artist studios on ground, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Each floor offers toilet and kitchen access. We do not have an accessible toilet although we can use the one in the Malmaison Hotel next door.
Walk: Marlborough House is in Belfast City centre, nestled between Malmaison Hotel and Albert Clock. We are a 30 second walk from Oxford St bus station and Custom House Sq. A two minute walk from Cathedral Quarter and 8 minutes from Belfast City Hall.
Bus: You can also easily travel here by public transport. We are a 30 second walk from Oxford St bus station and Custom House Square which are major bus hubs.
Train: Our nearest train station is Lanyon Place, a 14 minute walk or 6 minute Glider bus ride. Grand Central station is a 25 minute walk through the city centre. Check Translink or Google Maps for the latest directions.
Bicycle: There are two nearby Belfast Bikes stations at Donegall Quay and Cotton Court. https://www.belfastbikes.co.uk/en/belfast/
Car & Parking: Marlborough House is situated on a busy, 4 lane, one way street, making it more tricky to reach by car. We have 4 on-street parking spots right outside our building on Victoria St and two to the side on Marlborough St which are usually full. It’s best to head to one of the many nearby car parks.
Here are a few recommendations: Exchange Street or Corporation Street, BT1 are close by and council owned - 80p per hour, no time limit, take coins or card. Hi Park Centre multi-storey car park, High Street, BT1 2JZ, privately owned, £3 ph.
Our nearest on-street accessible car parking spots are- Exchange Street, BT1 2LJ, a 6 minute walk from our building.
Marlborough House
Marlborough House is our new premises in Belfast’s city centre. Affectionately known among members as “Marly” it’s home to some 70 artists across multiple disciplines.
At a time when many artist-led organisations are losing city centre locations we’re so excited to be bringing a Vault presence to the centre of town for the first time.
As with our building on Tower Street, although we hoped to stay there longer, this will also be a meantime location with plans for redevelopment coming down the line. It’s important that we acknowledge that while meantime use of buildings has allowed Vault to grow into the force that it is today, this model is not sustainable. Like many other similar organisations, we are exhausted by the precarious nature of the meantime model and the constant worry about finding new buildings on a regular basis but rest assured that we will make the very most of the building in the time that we have it, and we will continue to use our platform to advocate for a city where the arts are properly valued and sustainable.
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We’d like to sincerely thank the owners of Marlborough House, The Martin Property Group, for making the building available to us and for their help in making this move possible.
