The white Concorde airliner in British Airways colours, with its long pointed nose and red and blue tail, parked on tarmac with covered boarding steps up to its front door, a stair truck at the back and trees behind

Concorde in British Airways colours at Brooklands Museum, with boarding steps up to its front door.

Before you go

Prices
Adults £24.35 to £27.10, children 4 to 17 £10.15 to £11.25; less if you book online by midnight the day before, and in winter outside school holidays and event days; under 4s free
Open
Daily 10am to 5pm in summer and 10am to 4pm in winter (from 2 November 2026); see the museum’s calendar for when summer hours start; closed 24 to 26 December
Nearest station
Weybridge (South Western Railway), 35 minutes’ walk, or the 436 bus and 15 minutes’ walk; the station is step-free
Plan your journey
TfL Journey Planner, Google Maps or Uber

For families

  • Brooklands Museum Website
  • Family Things to Do
  • What’s On
  • Concorde Experience: a tour of Concorde at extra cost; book ahead, as each takes at most 16 people.
  • Quieter times: weekdays in term time (outside school holidays) are usually quietest, though school groups visit; event days are noisy.
  • Buggies (strollers): the museum is buggy friendly, and has baby changing in three buildings.
  • Food and play: the Sunbeam Café has children’s meals; picnics are welcome, with tables by the playground.
  • Lost children: in the school holidays and on busy event days, ask at Admissions for a lost child wristband.

For neurodivergent visitors

  • Relaxed Mornings
  • Visual story (PDF)
  • Sensory backpacks: borrow one free at Admissions, with ear defenders and fidget toys, or ear defenders on their own.
  • Quieter rooms: the Ladies’ Reading Room and the Clerk of the Course Office, off the café, are usually not busy.

Accessibility

  • Accessibility at Brooklands Museum
  • Getting around: mostly on one level, but with bumpy ground, gravel paths and some areas reached only by stairs.
  • Aircraft and buses: no aircraft, Concorde included, has step-free access, and only one bus has wheelchair access.
  • Queues: on busier days, staff can let visitors with hidden disabilities skip the queues; ask on the day.
  • Hidden disabilities: staff are trained to recognise the Sunflower lanyard, worn to show a disability you can’t see, and will ask how they can help.
  • Wheelchairs and mobility scooters: the museum lends three; reserve one on 01932 857381.
  • Free carer tickets: one carer or companion free with each paying visitor who may need help.

A steep, curving bank of weathered concrete track patched with moss, striped with sunshine and tree shadows, with a metal fence and trees along its top

A stretch of the old racing track’s steep concrete banking, patched with moss.

An old black and white photo of open racing cars on the steep curve of the concrete track, passing under an iron bridge packed with spectators, with a crowd in caps and hats watching from the bank on the left

Cars racing on Brooklands’ banked track during a 200-mile race, with crowds watching.

Brooklands is a really great museum, but it’s off the beaten track for visitors from outside the UK, because it’s difficult to get to by public transport. But it’s worth doing and you can combine it with Mercedes-Benz World - they’re next door to one another. If your budget will stand it then get a Taxi, Uber or Bolt from central London, or get the train from London Waterloo to Weybridge then walk: this map shows the shortest route which is 1 mile. Alternatively you can get a taxi from Weybridge station.

It’s the site of the world’s first motor racing track, so it has a long and distinguished motor racing history. The racing track was banked (sloped) like modern NASCAR racing, and you can still walk on some of the original banked track.

The site was later used for aircraft manufacturing; the aircraft that are in the museum now can never fly out again, because the runway has been sold and repurposed as Mercedes-Benz World’s racing track.

The Concorde Team, an episode of Secrets of the Transport Museum, from Brooklands Museum’s YouTube channel.

If you want to know what the museum is like, watch the TV show Secrets of the Transport Museum.

Concorde's landing gear seen close up from the ground, with big black tyres on blue wheels below a tall metal leg hung with pipes and cables, and wheel chocks, a fence, a brick building and trees behind

The wheels and leg of Concorde’s left rear landing gear.

The most famous aircraft at Brooklands is one of the few surviving Concordes. When I tried to take a picture of little Anna (then aged about 3) next to one of Concorde’s wheels - the wheel was the same height as her so I thought it would make a good picture - she was very unsure about standing next to the wheel in case it started turning!

Brooklands is a large museum with multiple sections, so allow half a day for it; in winter it closes at 4pm, so arrive by noon. The museum is a large open-air site, so dress for the weather and wear comfortable shoes. Pick up a printed map at the main entrance and a free family trail at Admissions.

Concorde and the aircraft

Concorde really is something special. Flown by a 3-person crew (including a Flight Engineer to look after the engines), it was one of only two types of supersonic passenger aircraft ever built. It had a maximum speed of Mach 2.23 (1,470 mph). To go inside, book the Concorde Experience, a 35-minute tour that starts with a briefing under the plane. Then you sit in its passenger seats for a virtual take-off and get a ‘flight’ certificate. The tour costs £7 for adults and £3.50 for children on top of the museum ticket, and it’s worth the extra; add it when you buy your museum tickets online. In the school holidays there’s also a 15-minute children’s tour, at £3.50 a person. An adult must go with the children, with no more than 5 children to each adult, and you can book it on the day or online.

The playground, opposite the Aircraft Park, is for children aged 2 to 12. It has a plane-themed climbing frame (jungle gym) with a slide, rocking toys and swings.

In the Aircraft Factory is the Loch Ness Wellington, a Second World War bomber that ditched (landed on the water) in Loch Ness during a blizzard on 31 December 1940. A team of American Loch Ness Monster hunters found it in 1976, and it was lifted out in 1985. Don’t miss the Tinsmith shop, where kids can make a small metal plane to take home. Upstairs they can design an aircraft on touch screens.

From the Aircraft Factory’s upper floor, a raised bridge leads into the Flight Shed. There you can sit in the pilot’s seats of a Hawker Hunter and a Harrier, and step inside the Vickers Wellington walk-through.

Buses and racing cars

Four old London buses parked side by side under a glass roof, three red double-deckers and a red and cream single-decker showing Nunhead Garage on its sign, each with a small information stand in front, beside a big red LONDON sign

Old double-decker and single-decker London buses lined up in the London Bus Museum.

On-site at Brooklands is the London Bus Museum, which has more than 30 old London buses and coaches, from a horse bus to modern buses. You can get on board many of them, and there’s a simulator for driving a bus round the streets of London, included in the museum ticket.

In the Jackson Shed, Britain’s Grand Prix Story covers more than 100 years of Grand Prix racing, from Britain’s first Grand Prix, held here in 1926, to Formula 1 today. Look up at the racing car on the ceiling. Under it is the Brooklands Simulator Experience, a racing simulator for anyone at least 140cm (4ft 7in) tall, which costs £10 extra and is booked on the day at Admissions. It’s made for adults; children may find it too difficult. There’s also two McLaren Senna GTR supercars, a full-size McLaren 720S built of LEGO, and a LEGO station where children can build a racing car.

A red and white Formula 1 car with the number 1 on its nose and Shell written across its wide front wing, behind a chain on a red tiled floor, with a sign about the car on a stand beside it and more racing cars behind

A red and white McLaren MP4-6 Formula 1 show car.

A full-size orange sports car made of LEGO bricks, with a grey and black windscreen and a 720S number plate, on show indoors beside a sign about the McLaren Senna GTR

The full-size McLaren 720S built of LEGO bricks.

They have a fantastic collection of vintage cars, motorcycles, and even pedal cycles. It’s fun to look back through history and see how different things could have been - some of the early cars don’t have a steering wheel (they have a horizontally turned handle instead) and some of the very early bicycles don’t have pedals (they were ridden by pushing on the floor, like a modern kids’ balance bike - this was called a “dandy horse”).

A long, low silver racing car with polished metal bodywork, spoked wheels, exhaust pipes along its side and a Union Jack on its nose, on a red tiled floor in front of glass cases of trophies and racing clothes

The long silver Napier-Railton racing car.

A red racing car with three wheels, two at the front and one at the back, its two-cylinder engine out in the open between the front wheels, with the racing number 2A on its side and the number plate EKG 505

A Morgan three-wheeler, with its engine out in front between its two front wheels.

School holidays and events

A bright blue vintage racing car with a horseshoe-shaped radiator grille, silver spoked wheels and leather straps over its bonnet, parked on tarmac beside a green-painted wooden building

A blue vintage Bugatti racing car at Brooklands.

A yellow and black supercar with its door open and a man stepping out, beside a red supercar, on old concrete, with more red cars behind and a crowd watching from behind railings on a grassy bank

Supercars at an Italian car day at Brooklands, with a crowd watching from behind the railings.

In the school holidays there are 20-minute rides round the local area on the London Bus Museum’s vintage buses (this also lets you easily get to the museum from Weybridge station), and rides in historic cars up the old Test Hill and round the track, each at extra cost. The car rides are for anyone at least 120cm (3ft 11in) tall, and you book them on the day.

Through the year, classic car gatherings and other motoring and aviation events are held at Brooklands - see their What’s On page.

Food

The Sunbeam Café is in the Clubhouse, which was built in 1907 for the race officials. It sells drinks, food, cakes, snacks and ice cream, with small hot meals and lunch packs for children. On event days more food is sold in the Paddock, the open area outside the Clubhouse.

Next to the cafe there’s also a nice little soft play area for small kids.

Tickets

Online bookings have a transaction fee. The prices in the Before you go box are without the voluntary 10% donation that the museum, a charity, asks for when you book. You can always buy tickets at the Admissions office on the day.

Getting there

Trains from London Waterloo take about 30 to 35 minutes to Weybridge, and some need a change at Woking. Oyster and contactless don’t work at Weybridge, so buy a ticket at Waterloo or online before you board (Travelling around London). There’s a taxi rank at Weybridge station for the short ride to the museum, or you can walk using this map (1 mile).