Quiet Hours 2025
Two of our exhibitions open from 9am - 10am, ahead of the full Museum opening at 10am.
Each Quiet Hour offers varying exhibition access:
May Half Term - Friday 30 May 2025
9am - 10am
We will be opening our Motoring Village which includes the Jackson shed – British Grand Prix: Where it all began, Campbell ERA Shed - Fastest on earth: Racing Legends of Brooklands and the Barnes Wallis' Stratosphere Chamber for a Quiet Hour, for visitors who are neurodivergent to enjoy these areas of the Museum, free from the hustle and bustle of our normal opening hours.
Our Sunbeam Café will be open for our ‘Brooklands Breakfast offer’ and our half term family activities will be running from 9am.
The Museum will then be open as normal from 10am – 5pm when all our exhibit areas will be open.
Working Vehicles Day - Saturday 19 July 2025
9am - 10am
We will open our gates an hour early at 9am for a Quiet Hour for Working Vehicles Day so that you can see the big, unusual and surprisingly familiar up close!
We will also be opening our Motoring Village which includes the Jackson shed – British Grand Prix: Where it all began, Campbell ERA Shed - Fastest on earth: Racing Legends of Brooklands and the Barnes Wallis' Stratosphere Chamber for visitors who are neurodivergent to enjoy these areas of the Museum, free from the hustle and bustle of our normal opening hours.
Our Sunbeam Café will be open for our ‘Brooklands Breakfast offer’ and our family activities will be running from 9am.
The Museum will then be open as normal from 10am – 5pm when all our exhibit areas will be open
Summer Holidays 2025
Tuesday 29 July 2025
9am - 10am
Our Aircraft Factory the home of our Wellington Bomber, the Flight Shed where you have a go at deciphering Morse Code, step inside the Vickers Wellington walkthrough as well as being able to get up close and sit in the pilot’s seats of the Hawker Hunter and Harrier aircraft* and the London Bus Museum with a wide array of buses on display from vintage to modern. Visitors who are neurodivergent can enjoy these areas of the Museum, free from the hustle and bustle of our normal opening hours.
Our Sunbeam Café will be open for our ‘Brooklands Breakfast offer’ and our half term family activities will be running from 9am.
The Museum will then be open as normal from 10am – 5pm when all our exhibit areas will be open.
*Some activities have step access only
Saturday 16 August 2025
9am - 10am
We will be opening our Motoring Village which includes the Jackson shed – British Grand Prix: Where it all began, Campbell ERA Shed - Fastest on earth: Racing Legends of Brooklands and the Barnes Wallis' Stratosphere Chamber for visitors who are neurodivergent to enjoy these areas of the Museum, free from the hustle and bustle of our normal opening hours. Visitors can also enjoy a Vintage Bus ride from the London Bus Museum free from the hustle and bustle of our normal opening hours.
Our Sunbeam Café will be open for our ‘Brooklands Breakfast offer’ and our half term family activities will be running from 9am.
The Museum will then be open as normal from 10am – 5pm when all our exhibit areas will be open.
Wednesday 27 August 2025
9am - 10am
Our Aircraft Factory the home of our Wellington Bomber, and Flight Shed where you can have a go at deciphering Morse Code or get up close and sit in the pilot’s seats of the Hawker Hunter and Harrier aircraft* will both be open. Visitors who are neurodivergent can enjoy these areas of the Museum, free from the hustle and bustle of our normal opening hours.
Our Sunbeam Café will be open for our ‘Brooklands Breakfast offer’ and our Summer Holiday family activities will be running from 9am.
The Museum will then be open as normal from 10am – 5pm when all our exhibit areas will be open. *some activities have step access only
Emergency Services Day - Saturday 20 September 2025
9am - 10am
We will open our gates an hour early at 9am for a Quiet Hour for our annual fun filled Emergency Services Day - where you will see a wide variety of emergency vehicles and pieces of apparatus used in our emergency services. This will be an impressive line-up of current serving vehicles and older historic vehicles with no sirens or flashing lights operating for the Quiet Hour period.
We will also open our Motoring Village which includes the Jackson shed – British Grand Prix: Where it all began, Campbell ERA Shed - Fastest on earth: Racing Legends of Brooklands and the Barnes Wallis' Stratosphere Chamber for visitors who are neurodivergent to enjoy these areas of the Museum, free from the hustle and bustle of our normal opening hours.
Our Sunbeam Café will be open for our ‘Brooklands Breakfast offer’ and our family activities will be running from 9am.
The Museum will then be open as normal from 10am – 5pm when all our exhibit areas will be open.
October Half Term - Friday 31 October 2024
9am - 10am
We will be opening our Motoring Village which includes the Jackson shed – British Grand Prix: Where it all began, Campbell ERA Shed - Fastest on earth: Racing Legends of Brooklands and the Barnes Wallis' Stratosphere Chamber, for visitors who are neurodivergent to enjoy these areas of the Museum, free from the hustle and bustle of our normal opening hours.
Our Sunbeam Café will be open for our ‘Brooklands Breakfast offer’ and our half term family activities will be running from 9am.
The Museum will then be open as normal from 10am – 5pm when all our exhibit areas will be open.
Christmas Holidays - Monday 29 December 2025
9am - 10am
Our Aircraft Factory the home of our Wellington Bomber, the Flight Shed where you have a go at deciphering Morse Code, step inside the Vickers Wellington walkthrough as well as being able to get up close and sit in the pilot’s seats of the Hawker Hunter and Harrier aircraft* and the London Bus Museum with a wide array of buses on display from vintage to modern. Visitors who are neurodivergent can enjoy these areas of the Museum, free from the hustle and bustle of our normal opening hours.
Our Sunbeam Café will be open for our ‘Brooklands Breakfast offer’ and our Christmas holiday family activities will be running from 9am.
The Museum will then be open as normal from 10am – 4pm when all our exhibit areas will be open.
*Some activities have step access only
