Beaulieu – National Motor Museum

• Over 280 vehicles on display, alongside motoring memorabilia and artefacts. The wider collection runs to more than 1.9 million items, so what is out on the floor is a selected slice of it.
• Grand Prix Greats and Road, Race & Rally for Formula 1 and motor sport machinery.
• For Britain & For the Hell of It, covering land speed record cars.
• The Motorcycle Story, tracking two wheels through the decades.
• Jack Tucker's Garage, a recreated 1930s garage full of period tools and clutter.
• Cars, motorcycles and commercial vehicles set in the context of British motoring history rather than just lined up in rows.

We Had One of Those is the permanent interactive display. It gathers popular cars from the 1960s through to the 2000s and lets you get right up close, with parts of the cars there to be handled and tried.

• Museum entry is included in the Beaulieu admission ticket, which also covers the other attractions across the wider site.
• Parking is free in the designated car parks, with room for around 1,000 cars, plus a separate disabled visitors' car park near Visitor Reception.
• There is a restaurant and cafe on site and toilets available.
• The museum building itself is wheelchair accessible. Most of the wider attraction is accessible too, though some listed historic buildings cannot be altered; trained staff can offer substitute viewing experiences where access is not possible. A limited number of manual wheelchairs and electric scooters can be borrowed free, subject to availability.

• The scale is the point, but it also means a lot of walking and reading if you want the full story. Pace it, and be ready to skim sections that do not grab you.