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Murrumbeena is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 km south-east of Melbourne’s Central Business District, located within the City of Glen Eira local presidency area. Murrumbeena recorded a population of 9,996 at the 2021 census.

Murrumbeena is a little suburban Place with extensive parklands and a wealthy artistic heritage.

It has multiple billboard zones featuring services and cafes, including: Murrumbeena Village, nearby the train station; Poath Road; North Road; and Murrumbeena Road comprehensible the Beauville Estate and Duncan McKinnon Reserve.

The name “Murrumbeena” derives from the Aboriginal word “mirambena.” It may have meant “land of frogs”, “moss growing upon decayed wood” or it may be a derivative from the post of an Aboriginal elder. The evidence for any of these etymologies is uncertain. The name was officially adopted taking into consideration the railway station opened in 1879.

The Boon Wurrung, the Indigenous Australians of the Kulin Nation, are recognised as the conventional owners of the estate now known as Murrumbeena.

Heritage protected Murrumbeena Village (1880s) sits upon the main street of Neerim Road, the intersection of Murrumbeena Road and the railway station. The oldest building (430 Neerim Road) is a double storey Victorian period building dating from 1889. The village contains protester cafes and dining options (modern Australian, Chinese, fish and chips, Indian, pizza, Thai, Vietnamese); businesses including hairdressers/barbers, florist and curio/op shops; and facilities including a bank, post office, newsagent and pharmacy. Yoga and dance studios, and a martial arts centre also feature in this area.

Artist Merric Boyd would purchase his sketchbooks (Octavo Spirax #577) at the newsagency here.

Murrumbeena Village is currently undergoing a creative revival past major infrastructure upgrades during 2017–2019. Numerous unique street cafes, evening dining options and a wine bar have popped happening alongside small businesses in creative fields which value the suburb’s sum up ease of access, walkability and village feel.

A creative publicize with local wares pops taking place fortnightly on Sundays (The Alleyway, Neerim Road) opposite the station. ‘Local Sundays,’ combines rouse music once barefoot bowls on the last Sunday of the month at the user-friendly Murrumbeena Bowls Club.

“Frogtopia,” twin murals by local artiste Anthony Breslin, feature in Attwood Lane together with Neerim Road and the station.

Murrumbeena is a well-connected suburb with ease of right of entry to public transport and main road arterials leading to freeways and CityLink.

The main roads delineating Murrumbeena are Dandenong Road, North Road, Murrumbeena Road and Poath Road, while Neerim Road traverses through it.

Murrumbeena railway station is a Zone 1 suburban railway station providing regular services to the city and along the Pakenham and Cranbourne lines. Most summit hour services govern partially express, with by yourself five stops with Murrumbeena and Melbourne’s CBD. The popular foster is capably used through to late night. There are adopt train links to Monash University (Caulfield) and bus links to Monash University (Clayton) and Holmesglen TAFE.

Upon ability of the Metro Tunnel in 2025, express city bound trains from Murrumbeena will be just 3/4 stops from Anzac (St Kilda Road)/Town Hall stations.

Murrumbeena Bus Interchange sits upon Murrumbeena Road under the elevated railway station, with Bus Routes 624 and 822 traversing through it.

Bus Route 627 travels surrounded by Chadstone SC and Moorabbin Station via Dandenong Road sustain lane, predominantly stopping along Murrumbeena Road and East Boundary Road.

Murrumbeena Village (c1880s) is pedigree protected due to its brick and rendered building facades. This rejuvenating suburb, has seen a significant growth in urban density along the rail corridor and main arterials later than single-level dwellings replaced by four to five-storey buildings. Outside of the main streets, Murrumbeena is a amalgamation of predominantly single-family snooty homes with little pockets of walk-up flats of occurring to two stories developed before the 1960s. The predominant style of the buildings in the shopping strip, station and surrounding homes are Federation and Interwar which add up many magnificent examples of single version Art Deco designs.

The Victoria Heritage Database lists the bearing in mind significant buildings in Murrumbeena:

Other listed significant features include:

“Butterfly House,” 38 Kangaroo Road, was expected as a template for broadminded sustainable design in conventional suburbs.

One of the most significant artistic groups in mid 20th-century Melbourne gathered at “Open Country”, the Boyd family property in Murrumbeena.
Outer Circle: The Boyds and the Murrumbeena Artists (NGV Australia 2014) presented the works created by Merric Boyd, Australia’s first studio potter, Arthur Boyd, John Perceval and others at Open Country and the Arthur Merric Boyd (AMB) Pottery on Neerim Road.

In 1954–56, Arthur Boyd was commissioned to Make the ceramic Olympic Pylon, known as Totem Pole, here for the Olympic Pool in Melbourne. The heritage-registered sculpture is now erected outside the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Centre.

Colourful sculptures tower above the Murrumbeena Community Garden beds (planted like a variety of vegetables, sunflowers and Indigenous herbs) and painted furniture at Anthony Breslin’s Community Art Project. The surrounding walls feature works of Breslin (including frogs) and new local artists, an extensive mural wall displays hundreds of tiles created by local primary literary students, and a sustainable water garden feature sits alongside the shed. It is reached via the driveway of Murrumbeena Uniting Church, 117 Murrumbeena Road.

In 2021, Murrumbeena in addition to became the home to a colourful 40-metre long mural upon Railway Parade, The Story of Big Frog, based on Breslin’s children’s book, BREZANIA.

Murrumbeena Primary School is an International Baccalaureate World School and Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program participant. The school building is upon the Victorian Heritage Database due to its architectural significance. Six sculpture totem poles were created here in conjunction considering ceramic artist-in-residence Ursula Dutkiewicz in 2008. Significant undertakings in the school’s archives include:

St Patrick’s Primary School is a Catholic school located against the church of the same name.

Murrumbeena High School originally occupied a large parcel of land on the corner of Murrumbeena Road and North Road at 801 North Rd, Murrumbeena 3163, across the road from Duncan McKinnon Reserve. Significant actions in its history include:

Forming allocation of the Outer Circle Railway Linear Park, Boyd Park was named after the artistically skilled Boyd family, and associates with the Urban Forest at its northern end upon Dandenong Road. The leafy park is surrounded by epoxy resin trees and has broad, open areas next a little playground and BBQ pavilion. “Open Country”, a bronze sculpture by Lenore Boyd representing Merric Boyd’s vision of activity in in front Murrumbeena, is mounted on a boulder user-friendly the park’s Neerim Road entry. The southern terminate features majestic 250-year-old River Red Gum trees, a next post and rail fence, and some of the last remnant original forest in the region, which includes endangered original orchids. Regular wildlife throughout Boyd Park includes brush tail and ringtail possums, 21 recorded original bird species (including tawny frogmouth), geckos and microbats. The endangered Swift Parrot has been monitored foraging between the River Red Gums and winter-flowering golden wattle here and near Murrumbeena and Carnegie stations on its annual migration to Tasmania.

At the fade away of the park is a mosaic pavement by player Donna Leslie, reflecting the ecological harmony, balance and interdependence of the natural elements of our quality in a Koori design. The simple Caulfield 9th (Murrumbeena) Scout Hall takes advantage of its park/bush atmosphere and is the deserted group considering an animal emblem (the frog) in the state.

The door to Springthorpe Gardens features the indigenous old gates of the Royal Melbourne Hospital (prior to 1860), which were presented to J. W. Springthorpe, who was a revered physician at the hospital and wrote many medical texts. The park was developed and named after him in 1934.

Murrumbeena Park upon Kangaroo Road has an broad discovery playground with abstemious riverbed, flying fox, climbing tower, maze, BBQ and picnic facilities. The two customary ovals are predominantly used by the Murrumbeena Football Club and Cricket Club. Nearby is an off-leash dog-walking area. Murrumbeena Park Bowls Club is upon the park’s western boundary.

Duncan McKinnon Reserve, on the corner of Murrumbeena and North Roads, features an athletics facility, netball courts, sporting grounds and playground. The admittance access, 1.2 km fitness track concerning the perimeter includes an ‘outdoor gym’ with balance beam, bench, horizontal bar, jump touch, monkey bars, pull going on bar, push happening bar and step. Murrumbeena Relay for Life is held at the Duncan McKinnon Athletics Track annually to raise money for the Cancer Council.

Mallanbool Reserve, off Murrumbeena Road and Leila Road, is a cultural and botanical trail for visitors to learn just about the native inhabitants of the area, the Kulin. Its trails be next to to Packer Park.

The historical Boyd Walk commences in Murrumbeena Village opposite Murrumbeena Station and connects eight sites of historical significance. It tells the balance of Murrumbeena’s artistic descent and local liveliness of the Boyd intimates and associated artists who completed significant works in the area.

The Kulin Nation Trail through Mallanbool Reserve is an interpretive cultural and botanical trail telling the stories of the original Indigenous owners of the area.

The 17 km-long Djerring Trail, which runs under the elevated rail pylons, was completed in 2018. The leafy, shared pedestrian/bike path has exercise stations, and associates Murrumbeena to Hughesdale (east) and Carnegie (west).

Numerous cycling contacts traverse Murrumbeena, including the 17 km-long Djerring Trail, which runs under and to the side of the rail corridor from Caulfield to Dandenong.

A shared lane through Boyd Park (along the Outer Circle Railway) connects to Gardiners Creek Trail upon the additional side of Dandenong Road then onto the Yarra Trail and Scotchmans Creek Trail. A bike repair station is alongside the pathway in Boyd Park.

Rosstown Rail Trail runs east–west along Murrumbeena Crescent.

The shared bike and parking lane along Murrumbeena Road runs north–south connecting to Dandenong Road and extending along East Boundary Road.

Through the Boyds, Murrumbeena played host to other Famous artists including John Perceval, Sidney Nolan, Hatton Beck, and Peter Herbst, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester, Yosl Bergner, Artur and Sylvia Halpern, Jean Langley and many others. Many pottery works produced in Murrumbeena are held in the National Gallery of Victoria’s Australian Ceramics collection.

Many Australian Rules footballers played behind Melbourne Demons and came from Murrumbeena Football Club and afterward grew up (or went to school) in the suburb, including Robert Flower from 1973 until 1987, Tom Flower, Ray Carr, Mark Mitchell, Howard Hollow and Ken Jungworth.

The suburb has an Australian Rules football team competing in the Southern Football League behind a chronicles that can be traced help to the formation of the Murrumbeena Junior Football Club in 1918. They have junior and senior sides, including women’s teams. Murrumbeena won back-to-back SFNL Women’s Division 1 Premierships in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Murrumbeena Bowls Club and Murrumbeena Park Bowls Club dome teams in the Bowls Victoria Pennant competition.

Sporting clubs:

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Bungey, Darleen (2008), Arthur Boyd: A life. ISBN 9781741756135
Niall, Brenda (2007), ‘The Boyds’ ISBN 9780522853841
Phillipp, Franz (1967). Arthur Boyd. ISBN 9221055566
Smith, Colin G. (2013). Merric Boyd and Murrumbeena: The Life of an Artist in a Time and a Place. ISBN 978-0-646-59558-0