Family things to do at Brooklands Museum
Brooklands Museum is a unique and fantastic family outing. Open daily, with lots of indoor and outdoor areas for families to enjoy a wholesome day together. Explore buses, racing cars, airplanes, playground, problem-solving trails and interactive experiences!
Kids entry from £10. Children under four always go free.
The Sunbeam Café is open for breakfast, lunch and snacks. For children, we offer mini hot meals and ‘Pick and Mix’ lunch packs. Picnics are welcome with plenty of space available around the site.
Top things to do & see with the kids
- Walk under and board huge planes in the Aircraft Park
- Step on board Concorde and re-live the excitement of the supersonic age (extra charge applies and pre-booking advised)
- Explore buses in the London Bus Museum and drive around the streets of London in the simulator
- Build a metal plane to take home in the award-winning Aircraft Factory
- See our McLaren Supercars! Build your own race car at the LEGO building station
- See Formula One cars, or race the F1 simulator
- See the noisy record-breaking Napier-Railton race car
- Explore how weather was recreated in the awesome Stratosphere Chamber
- Meet the Loch Ness Monster, the Wellington Bomber
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London Bus Museum
Explore over 30 buses and coaches at the largest collection of working historic London buses in the world! -
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Brooklands Aircraft Factory
Explore the Brooklands Aircraft Factory, an immersive environment, harking back to the Hangar’s original use as a manufacturing building. -
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British Grand Prix: Where it all began
Step inside the workshop Robin Jackson, one of motor racing’s leading engineers in the 1930s. Hear the stories of the first British Grand Prix races, held here at Brooklands. -
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First to the Fastest
The exhibition celebrates two historic Transatlantic air races: the first in 1919 with a Vickers Vimy and the second in 1969 with a Hawker Harrier GR.1 -
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McLaren Driven by Design
This behind-the-scenes exhibition explores how the team at McLaren designed and developed one of the ultimate supercars, the McLaren Senna GTR.
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Emergency Services Day 2025
- 20th Sept 2025
- 10am - 5pm
See emergency vehicles, PAW Patrol, the PAW Patroller plus lots of family entertainment! Picnics welcome.
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Become a member
Enjoy unlimited entry with membership from £63!
Activity trails
Help yourself to one of our free family activity trails on arrival that will lead you to unexpected places and objects throughout the museum.
Trails are available to pick up from Admissions or from Reception in the Clubhouse.
Quiet Hour sessions
Visitors who are neurodivergent can enjoy these areas of the Museum, free from the hustle and bustle of our normal opening hours.
Facilities
- Baby changing in the Clubhouse and Jackson Shed (Grand Prix Exhibition)
- Family accessibility (prams and wheelchairs)
- Sunbeam Café (mini hot meals and lunchboxes for children)
- Picnics welcome, outdoor spaces available
- Shop (selection of gifts and souvenirs)
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Upcoming events
Experience an impressive display of vehicles, Test Hill ascents and motorsport across a variety of events.
