The Harwich Mayflower Heritage Centre (formerly Project) is a museum and charitable community project whose main goal is to establish a "legacy for Essex", both through constructing a full-scale replica of the famous Mayflower ship which transported a hundred Pilgrim Fathers from England to America in 1620, and through celebrating the history and heritage of Harwich, a town in the south-east of England.

The Centre's formation, initially as the "Harwich Mayflower Project", was inspired by a visit to the town from a replica of HMS Endeavour, the ship commanded by James Cook.

The interiors were to be completely overhauled and, using local rail enthusiast Bob Clow's extensive and unique collection of memorabilia, converted to replicate their appearance as they would have looked in about 1924.

[17] Word of the Centre gathered momentum in 2013, with multiple news agencies both sides of the Atlantic and beyond picking up on the story of Harwich's Mayflower claim, from Britain[18][19][20][21][22] to America,[23][24][25][26] Canada,[27] and even Hungary.

[28] The Centre itself has also received national coverage from the BBC and ITV,[29] from a range of online publications writing about the 400 Year celebrations for the Mayflower expedition as well as a number of local papers, including the Harwich & Manningtree Standard and the East Anglian Daily Times.