Explore this unique family museum through hands-on and interactive experiences
Brooklands Museum is fantastic for a family outing. Open daily, families can enjoy a wholesome day out, and explore buses, racing cars, airplanes, playground and interactive experiences!
Listed by the The Times as a Top Family Day Out
Kids entry from £9.50 when you pre-book online. Children under four always go free.
Sunbeam Café offers breakfast, lunch and snacks. For children, we offer mini hot meals and ‘Pick and Mix’ lunch packs to take away in their very own lunch boxes. Picnics are also welcome.
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)
Top Family Things to See & Do 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 the bus museum with simulator
- Build a metal plane to take home in the Aircraft Factory
- Get into a Formula One car, or race the F1 simulator
- See our Lego McLaren Supercars! Build your own the LEGO build station
- See the noisy record-breaking Napier-Railton racing car
- Explore the awesome Stratosphere Chamber
- Meet the Loch Ness Monster, the Wellington Bomber
Brooklands Aircraft Factory > Explore the Brooklands Aircraft Factory, an immersive environment, harking back to the Hangar’s original use as a manufacturing building. 
British Grand Prix: Where it all began > Step inside the workshop Robin Jackson, one of motor racing’s leading engineers in the 1930s. In here we tell the story of the first British Grand Prix races, held here at Brooklands in 1926 and... 
First to the Fastest > The exhibition celebrates two historic Transatlantic air races: the 100th anniversary of Alcock and Brown’s non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in a Brooklands-built Vickers Vimy in June 1919 and the... 
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. 
Brooklands' Darkest Hour > The Air Raid Shelter Walkthrough Experience features the images and voices of the men and women who survived the deadly World War two air raid. 
Concorde Experience > Take the Brooklands Concorde Experience and see inside the World's most famous aircraft. Re-live the excitement of the supersonic age in this fascinating 35-minute tour, evoking emotional memories. 
Fastest on earth: Racing Legends of Brooklands > The Fastest on Earth exhibition recalls the countless speed records achieved at Brooklands and pays tribute to the Brooklands drivers, riders, mechanics and engineers who claimed new records across... 
Sunbeam Café > The Sunbeam Café offers a delicious range of freshly made, seasonal recipes covering breakfast, lunch, snacks and treats. 
Brooklands: Innovating the World of Flight > This exhibition area houses the BAC 1-11 and the collection of Vickers aircraft built after 1945, including the Varsity military trainer, Viscount, Vanguard ‘Merchantman’, VC10 airliners and... 
Barnes Wallis Stratosphere Chamber > The Barnes Wallis-designed "Stratosphere Chamber" was built in 1946 to investigate high-speed flight at very high altitudes. 
Trails for Children
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.
