The Dorking Museum and Heritage Centre opens a new temporary exhibition, The Blackbrook Bomber, on Friday May 3.
The display will feature material excavated last year by the National Trust at the site on Holmwood Common where a German Junkers JU-88 aircraft crashed in March 1944.
Panels follow the life story of the plane from manufacture in 1942, through its operations in Norway, North Africa and Italy until it was shot down by a British Mosquito.
The dramatic events of that night are described, as is the aftermath the following morning when "the air was thick with the stench of burning aircraft fuel". The exhibition will run until the end of August.
The West Street museum will also open four days a week from May 16. It will open from 1 to 4pm on Thursdays and Sundays and 10am to 4pm on Fridays and Saturdays. Admission costs are adults £2, seniors and under 18s £1, families £4.50 and under fives free.
