Von Braun Center - Huntsville, AL - multiple facilities to hold events or attend an event in comfort

The Von Braun Center is located at 700 Monroe Street Southwest. Originally known as Von Braun Civic Center the facility offers a complex for the performing arts, meeting and multipurpose arena inside. The facility has a maximum capacity ten thousand people seated. The facility has hosted a number of memorable events through the years.

There are also exhibit halls with multiple functions, a playhouse, concert hall and a number of other facilities to hold exhibits and meetings at Von Braun Center. After the 2nd World War Dr. Wernher von Braun who had once been a rocket scientist helped to lay the foundation for the space program in the U.S. when he was taken to the Army's Redstone Arsenal. The center is named for Braun.

There are over one hundred thousand square feet of continuous space and column free exhibit space of eighty-two thousand feet in the South Hall. The Von Braun Center also has a covered parking garage with five hundred spaces in it. There are meeting rooms, a pre function area and lobby that are over twenty thousand square feet to accommodate events as well. There are groups of various sizes accommodated in the meeting rooms of the North, East and West Halls that offers fifty thousand more square feet of banquet, meeting and exhibition space.

The multipurpose venue for entertainment is equipped to accommodate the ballet, major concerts, symphonies and a variety of sporting events. There are facilities provided to hold seminars or conferences in the Playhouse Theatre for up to 502, up to 2,153 in the Concert Hall and 10,000 people in the Arena.

Interstate 65 South or North can be used to get to the Von Braun Center. Use the 340 exit and take Interstate I-565 East to Huntsville and go about nineteen miles to the 19-A South Memorial Parkway exit which is 231 South. When merging onto the parkway use the Clinton Street exit and follow the loop to the red light; turn right and you will be on Clinton Street. The parking for the North Hall will be on the right.

Those that do not wish to park at the North Hall can continue to the Monroe Street light and take a right. The road leads past the front of the center. Handicapped parking accommodations can be in front of the Ticket Office. To get to the parking garage for the South Hall take a right past the Arena. When visiting the Von Braun Center from Scottsboro use seventy-two west exit 19-A onto Jefferson Street once the highway merges with Interstate 565.

When using I-565 continue to the first light which is Monroe Street and take a right. When you reach the light for Clinton Street take a right and the directions are the same as if you had come from North or South I-65. The facility can be reached utilizing Highway 431 West when traveling from Guntersville. The highway turns into Governors Drive, take it across California Street and go past the Huntsville Hospital. When you get to Monroe Street take a right and continue to the light for St. Claire. When you get to the next light take a left to continue on Monroe. To your left is the parking for South Hall, the handicapped parking and Box office are the second left. A left at the light for Clinton Street will take you to the North Hall.