The place behind the game.

The Bradman Museum acknowledges the Gundungurra and Tharawal peoples as the traditional custodians of the land on which the museum and oval stand.

The museum notes more than 400 significant Aboriginal sites in the Bowral area. The story of cricket here is one recent chapter in a much longer history of this land.

Cricket has been played on the ground since the 1890s, and it has long been home to Bowral Cricket Club. Don Bradman grew up opposite it, played his first games on it and joined the club in 1925.

The ground was named Bradman Oval in 1947 and was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register in 2000, valued both for its link with Bradman and for its character as an early country-town park.

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The Bradman Museum opened in 1989, and the International Cricket Hall of Fame opened in its buildings in 2010. Its galleries trace cricket from the 14th century to today.

This history belongs to the place and the people who shaped it. The History page offers a longer introduction, and the timeline gives a short route through selected milestones.

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