Brooklands Museum

Key Facts

The Brooklands Museum tells the story of the development of British motorsport and aviation at the site from 1907. Brooklands-based aviation companies such as Sopwith, Martinsyde and Vickers played a key role in the development of aviation. Displays and exhibits portray the contribution of the area in both world wars, and also in the post-war years with Vickers and later BAC. An exhibition on Grand Prix motor racing can also be seen. The Concorde exhibition is now open.

On the B374 south of Weybridge, Surrey. Well signed from Junctions 10 or 11 of the M25. The entrance to the museum is on Brooklands Drive, from Wellington Way off the B374 or Sopwith Drive off the A245. See this location on Microsoft Live Search Maps

Open daily 10.00 am to 5.00 pm (last entry 4.00 pm), Easter to October; Winter months 10.00 am to 4.00 pm (last entry 3.00 pm). Now open on Mondays. Not open Good Friday or December 23-31.

See official site for details.

Amenities:

Toilets, Parking, Cafe, Souvenir shop, Access for the disabled.

Roe I Biplane (replica) in a reproduction of Roe’s shed (photo, Nigel Roling/Pentavia)	Demoiselle (replica) BAPC.194 (photo, Nigel Roling/Pentavia)
Viscount 806 G-APIM (photo, Dan Lord)	P.1127 XP894 (photo, Dan Lord)

Notes: Beagle 206-1X G-ARRM and a Concorde Nose Section are on loan the Bristol Aircraft Collection at Kemble. DH Vampire T.11 ‘U-1215′ was moved off site by it’s owner in 2001. Sea Vixen XJ571 has moved to the Southampton Hall of Aviation. The Curtiss D Pusher was sold by the owner to Kermit Weeks, Demoiselle BAPC.194 has been returned to the RAF Museum and Supermarine 544 cockpit was returned to its private owner in 2001. Hunter ‘XF314′ is currently under restoration and will not be on-site until 2007. Hunter T.7 XL621 ‘G-BNCX’ has been moved off site by it’s owner.

Brooklands Museum Trust Ltd, Brooklands Road, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 0QN. Tel: 01932 857381, Fax: 01932 855465, e-mail: info@brooklandsmuseum.com, Curator: juliantemple@brooklandsmuseum.com
Website: Brooklands Museum.

Wellington IA N2980 (photo, Dan Lord)	Wellington rear view (photo, Dan Lord)
Wellington nose (photo, Dan Lord)	Grand Slam Bomb (photo, Dan Lord)
Avro 504K ‘G-AACA’ (photo, Dan Lord)	Viking 1A G-AGRU (photo, Dan Lord)
Fury I ‘K5673′ (photo, Dan Lord)	Hurricane IIa Z2389 (photo, Dan Lord)
Merchantman nose G-APEJ (photo, Dan Lord)	Viscount 837 nose XT575 (photo, Dan Lord)
TSR-2 cockpit section (photo, Dan Lord)	VC10 nose (photo, Dan Lord)
Hunter F.51 E-421 (photo, Dan Lord)	Varsity T.1 WF372 (photo, Dan Lord)
Merchantman G-APEP (photo, Dan Lord)	VC10 A40-AB (photo, Dan Lord)
Rapier-Railton car (photo, Dan Lord)	Hunter T.7 XL621 (photo, Dan Lord)

5 Comments

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  By John, 16 April 2010 @ 8:00 am

  Very dissapointing visit. After travelling 50 miles, paying for entrance to see Concorde we were then asked for more money if we actually wanted to see inside. One of the hangars were closed (due to staff manning the pay for concorde exhibit) and if it had not been for the Wellington, there would have been little interest. We had to sit in a drafty cold tent for lunch at Exhibition prices.

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  By Heathbridge, 13 December 2010 @ 10:14 pm

  As a frequent visitor to Brooklands myself, I can assure you that these comments are a travesty of the real situation. Hangars are never ‘closed due to staff manning the pay for Concorde exhibit’. In April, there was a change of caterers and the tea room was temporarily closed for a major ‘make-over’, a fact that was made clear to all visitors when I was there. Brooklands had to pay out almost £500,000 to transport and re-build the Concorde and, as it receives no grants, it has to recover this cost from visitors. Believe me, it is worth every penny of the £4 that it costs for the 35 minute experience. I have yet to meet any other visitor who was dissatisfied or less than very enthusiastic.

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  By Julian Temple, 6 February 2011 @ 4:58 pm

  Supermarine Swift WK198 (fuselage only – ex World Air Speed Record holder when flown by Mike Lithgow in 1953) arrived on 3rd Feb 2011 on loan from Unimetal Industries Ltd. Please note that due to space constraints not all of our aircraft exhibits are always on display – for example none of the gliders, the 2008 Avroplane replica and the White Monoplane are all currently dismantled and stored.

  Please note that I am now the Museum’s General Manager (not Curator of Aviation any more).

  Finally, I note that most of the pictures you use of our exhibits are very old and out of date – please let me know if you would like me to email some new ones.

  We ARE open on Good Fridays and

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  By Suzie griffith, 10 March 2011 @ 9:30 am

  Just seen your website but visited there in April 2009 whilst visiting from Australia with my 2 young boys. Their mouths remained open as did their eyes every place we went! The staff in the hangers told them so many stories and let them touch and feel the planes. The race track and the concorde and all the old passenger planes…..They absolutely loved the whole experience and still talk about it 2 years later! There could not be a better place to take boys of any age. Would absolutely thoroughly recommend this. It is a whiole day out and well worth it.

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  By michael norman, 20 April 2011 @ 8:37 pm

  Have visited Brooklands for the first time since I was at end of war chidrens party age 5, in 1945 at Vickers Aircraft factory. My Mother and Farther met at Vickers and married at which Mum had to leave Vickers as married women were not allowed to stay. Had a great day.

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