The Daily Mail Circuit of Britain air race of 1911 started and finished at Brooklands, and both the event and the location later influenced the theme of the classic 1965 Twentieth Century Fox British film comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.

[2] A rally, organised by Godalming & District Round Table, took place at the site in June 1967 for the circuit's diamond jubilee.

Gallaher Ltd pledged £1.5 million to restore the clubhouse, but at the same time a further 300 m (980 ft) section of the banked part of the track was destroyed.

[4] The visitors were admitted to Brooklands Museum in the summer of 1990, but the official opening ceremony was performed by the Royal Patron, Prince Michael of Kent, on 10 April 1991.

Other museum exhibits include flyable Bleriot XI and Sopwith Camel replicas built by Mike Beach and Viv Bellamy, respectively.

A major new visitor attraction, 'The Concorde Experience', opened in August 2006,[24] centenary celebrations occurred in 2007[25] and a full-size modern working replica of Alliott Verdon Roe's 1908 'Avroplane' was completed and unveiled on 7 June 2008.

The museum also owns and, until late 2009, operated an airworthy Vickers Vimy replica which was built in America in 1994 to re-enact the design's three record-breaking long-distance flights of 1919–20.

[26] In 2016, it was relocated to a purpose-built Vimy Pavilion where it is now kept maintained 'live' condition and performs occasional engine running demonstrations on the race track.

In early 2011 the museum received (on loan from its owners) the historic fuselage of the Supermarine Swift F.4 prototype, WK198, which held the World Absolute Air Speed Record when flown by test pilot Mike Lithgow in Libya on 26 September 1953.

Centred on a restored Hawker Hurricane, it explained how the aircraft factories made the site a prime target for the Luftwaffe.

In 2012, the 50th anniversary of the Vickers VC10 airliner was marked by the staging of a VC10 Symposium and the official opening of a new VC10 exhibition by the late Sir George Edwards' daughter Angela Newton on 29 June – half a century after the aircraft was first flown here by Jock Bryce, Brian Trubshaw and Bill Cairns.

[29] The Brooklands contribution to the Royal Air Force's legendary 617 Squadron 'Dambusters' attack on Germany's Ruhr Valley reservoirs on 16–17 May 1943 was commemorated on 12 May 2013 by three impressive flypasts of Brooklands Museum given by the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight's Avro Lancaster – as a special 70th anniversary tribute to Barnes Wallis and the Vickers-Armstrong engineers who developed the Upkeep bouncing bomb.