Preview, a taste of the Digital Museum. A direction we're inviting you into, not a finished product.
Harrow Discovery Centre The Digital Museum
The Digital Museum · a members' collection

The story of the game, and the First XI at its heart.

The First XI sailed to the other side of the world to take their game and their culture with them. Now their story, and the century and a half of cricket it helped shape, can reach anyone, anywhere. This is the museum without walls.

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1868 to todayA living timeline of the game
Every monthA new featured exhibition
EverywhereThe story, shared with the world
Why a digital museum

One of the world's great cricket stories, shared with everyone.

The story of the First XI is one of deep cultural, sporting and historical significance, shared across Western Victoria, Sydney and the United Kingdom. For every visitor who can travel to the Centre, there are thousands who never will: cricket lovers in England and India, the descendants and the curious, and the many who simply can't make the journey.

The Digital Museum opens a second door. The Centre welcomes the visitor who can come; the Digital Museum carries the same story to everyone who can't, wherever they are, and invites them to help keep it alive.

The bricks
Come to Harrow

Stand inside the boat room, see the collection, and feel the story up close.

The clicks
Explore from anywhere

The same story, told online for a worldwide audience who become part of it.

What you'll find inside

Not a website about a museum, but a museum you step into.

The Digital Museum is built to be explored, not just read. Here's what it opens up.

1Historic cricket team photograph

Travel the timeline

A flowing river of cricket history you can drift along, from the 1868 tour to the modern game, every milestone a stop you can step into.

2The Ashes urn

Step inside every moment

Zoom into the artefacts, photographs and film. Each exhibit tells its full story, the people, the match, the meaning, in rich detail.

3Johnny Mullagh

The 1868 story, in depth

Unaarrimin (Johnny Mullagh) and the First XI, told with care and cultural integrity: the achievement, the journey, and the legacy that still runs through the game.

4A featured exhibition subject

A new exhibition every month

An in-depth featured story added regularly, so there's always something new to come back for, and the collection keeps growing.

5A historic cricket ball

Add your own piece

A photograph in a shoebox, a story handed down. Anyone can contribute. Curated by the Centre, the archive becomes something the whole community builds together.

6A great cricket ground

A worldwide members' club

Join a global circle of people who love this story and keep it thriving, wherever in the world they happen to be.

A glimpse of the collection

150 years of the game, in one place.

From the pioneers of 1868 to the legends of today, a few of the moments waiting inside.

The 1868 First XI
The 1868 XI
The Ashes urn
The Ashes
Don Bradman
Bradman
Victor Trumper
Trumper
India's first Test team, 1932
India 1932
The Johnny Mullagh statue
Mullagh
The Johnny Mullagh memorial statue at Harrow
Why it matters

Every member helps keep the doors open in Harrow.

The Digital Museum isn't only a way to explore the story. It's a way to sustain the place that keeps it. A worldwide membership turns admirers everywhere into supporters here, funding the care of the collection and the future of the Centre.

  • Reach far beyond who can visit, a global audience, year-round
  • Turn one-off donations into lasting, recurring support
  • Grow a worldwide community of Friends around the 1868 story
  • Keep the collection cared for, and the Centre's doors open
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Told with care

“The 1868 story is told the way it is told in Harrow, with pride, dignity and respect, guided by community. A celebration of skill, courage and an extraordinary journey; never a matter of politics.”

A direction, not yet a destination

Help bring the Digital Museum to life.

This is a glimpse of what's possible, a future chapter for the Centre, still to be built. If it stirs something in you, we'd love to hear from you: as a founding supporter, a contributor of stories, or simply someone who believes this story deserves the world.

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