Brooklands Museum Day Trips Surrey

Brooklands Museum Day Trips Surrey provides unforgettable learning experiences outside the classroom for Early Years to Post-16.

Brooklands Museum, Surrey’s most famous heritage site and home to an incredible collection of cars and aircraft, brings to life the record-breaking achievements that happened on the world’s first racetrack, aircraft factories and airfield.

Step back in time to the days of innovation, determination and record breaking on the 32-acre site. Discover supersonic flight at the Home of Concorde and get up close to the aircraft designed, built and flown at Brookland’s.

Regarded as a national treasure, Brooklands’ astonishing accomplishments and innovation changed the world of British motorsport and aviation. The inventions designed and built at Brooklands have left a legacy which can all be explored by your pupils on the actual site where it all happened for an award-winning day out.

The London Bus Museum is also located within Brooklands Museum, and schools are able to view the large range of vintage and modern buses housed within during their visit.

Brooklands was a magnet for pioneers, scientists and engineers as they solved some of the greatest challenges of the 20th century, from breaking land speed records to pushing the boundaries of flight.

Students can trace the sweeping changes in 20th century technology and engineering through our Motoring Village, Aircraft Park, Aircraft Factory and historic racetrack. They’ll learn how these technologies affect how we live our lives today.

Brooklands Museum supports learning outside the classroom through a range of action-packed workshops, guided tours, activity days and resources that will inspire and engage pupils from Reception through to College and University. We welcome Home Educators throughout term time and offer occasional dedicated Home Educator days.

Our award-winning school visits are adapted to meet the study topics, interest, and needs of all pupils who visit us. Each school will have dedicated workshop facilitators and tour guides to give you a tailored visit which allows all of your pupils to get the most out of their visit to Brooklands Museum.

Key National Curriculum Links: History, Science, Design & Technology and Maths

For more information download our Learning brochure here 

We offer a broad range of curriculum-linked workshops and guided tours which show pupils how the topics pupils learn in the classroom are used to create innovative designs for motor vehicles and aircraft. There are many opportunities for pupils to get hands-on and experience how cars and aircraft are created, both as part of workshops and in self-led visits. We also offer guided tours of Concorde, the world’s only supersonic passenger aircraft.

Our full range of workshops and activities by Key Stage can be found on our website:

https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/learning/educational-visits/

Large schools will be split into groups of up to 32 pupils for self-led periods and workshops, and split into groups of 16 for guided tours. Schools are provided with a timetable with groups rotating through the activities booked.

Our usual maximum capacity is 120 pupils per day, but please contact us if you would like to bring a bigger group.

We also ask that school groups bring appropriate adult supervision, as children under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult supervisor at all times. School groups can bring a number of adults to the Museum free of charge, depending on the age of the students. Our adult to child ratios are:

• Early Years and Key Stage 1: one adult to five students (1:5)
• Key Stage 2: one adult to seven students (1:7)
• Key Stage 3 and 4: one adult to ten students (1:10)
• Post 16: one adult to ten students (1:10)
• 1:1 support staff free of charge

If you are bringing extra adults with your group, they will be charged Admission to the Museum.

The Aircraft Factory exhibition has a stamp collection, scavenger-hunt style card which can be collected on arrival at the exhibition.

We do not have online resources.

Schools and groups are permitted to take photography on the day of their visit subject to the school or group trip organizer taking responsibility for photography permissions before your visit.

Photography or videography equipment is restricted to handheld devices only. If tripods or other equipment is required, this will need prior approval and Risk Assessments completing before your visit.

Please ensure other Museum guests are not captured in your photography or videos.

Our Schools General Risk Assessment can be downloaded here 

A copy of this will be sent to the teacher shortly before their visit along with the timetable, visual story and other information.

Teachers can book a complimentary pre-visit to Brooklands Museum during opening hours, during which you can complete a school-specific Risk Assessment. Please note we are unable to accommodate pre-visits on our Event Days.

If you are ready to make your booking, please fill in the request to book an educational visit form here

Once you submit the form, a member of staff will contact you to confirm your educational visit.

If you would like more information about a potential educational visit to Brooklands Museum, or would simply like to have an informal chat about how we can accommodate you and your students, you are welcome to contact our Learning & Engagement team by calling 01932 857381 ext. 242 or by emailing learning@brooklandsmuseum.com.

Pupil admission £7 per pupil under 16/£10 per pupil over 16.

Adult admission free for supervising adults in the below ratios:

• Early Years and Key Stage 1: one adult to five students (1:5)
• Key Stage 2: one adult to seven students (1:7)
• Key Stage 3 and 4: one adult to ten students (1:10)
• Post 16: one adult to ten students (1:10)

1:1 support staff free of charge. Additional adults £19.50 each

Guided tours £95 per class

Workshops from £95 per class

Concorde Walkthroughs £40 per class

Our full range of workshops and activities with pricing can be found on our website:

https://www.brooklandsmuseum.com/learning/educational-visits/

Please wear comfortable shoes as there may be a lot of walking involved.

There are plenty of indoor spaces in the Museum, but travelling between them requires going outside. Please bring weather-appropriate clothing.

The Museum has a first aid room located in the Clubhouse, by Reception. There are several trained first aiders on site.

You can book one of our activity rooms free of charge as part of your visit, which is allocated to you for the day and can be used to store bags and eat packed lunches.

Toilets are available across site, and those in the Clubhouse are easily accessible from the activity rooms and lunch spaces.

There is also a Café and Gift Shop on site.

We welcome all visitors to Brooklands Museum and aim to make your day out successful and enjoyable. We are committed to improving access and facilities for all visitors.

Throughout your visit at Brooklands Museum, our helpful and friendly volunteer stewards and staff will always be on hand to assist you, ensuring that you have the best experience possible.

Brooklands Museum is a large open-air museum with many period buildings and exhibits. Due to the historic nature of our site there are areas which have bumpy and uneven surfaces. There is no step-free access to board our aircraft, which all have steep boarding steps, including Concorde.

We have accessible toilets and baby changing facilities located across site. There are ground-floor lunch rooms.

The Museum is open daily from 10am and closes at 5pm (Summer Hours) or 4pm (Winter Hours).

We are able to accommodate arrivals before 10am, though this will incur an extra charge due to staffing requirements.

Closed dates: 24, 25, 26 December.

“We loved it. The volunteers were fantastic and the students really had a great time.” Salesian College, Farnborough

“The Downhill Racers workshop ties in brilliantly with [our students’] design technology work at school. Both testing for them and very entertaining.” Teachers at St Neot’s Preparatory School, Hook