Musgrave Park, Brisbane
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Musgrave Park in South Brisbane
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| Location | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Area | 6.3 hectares (16 acres) |
| Created | 1856 |
Musgrave Park is a park in South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The park is bordered by Edmonstone, Russell, and Cordelia Streets, and Brisbane State High School, and has an area of 63,225 m2. The park is of cultural significance to indigenous Australians.
Musgrave Park is a remnant of the former Kurilpa (South Brisbane) Aboriginal camping ground that stretched from "Highgate Hill and on (to) the slanting slopes of Cumboomeya (Somerville House)" and additionally "sometimes they made a camp in the little scrub then situated on the river bank near the recent entrance to the Dry Dock". From here and Woolloongabba, Aborigines in the 1840s and 1850s would go into South Brisbane to work chopping wood, carrying water, and selling fish.
The South Brisbane Recreation Reserve (as it was originally known) was created in 1856.
In 1867, it was proposed to build a public grammar school (Brisbane State High School) adjacent to the reserve.
In 1884 it was renamed Musgrave Park after the then Governor of Queensland, Sir Anthony Musgrave.
In 1998, the Brisbane City Council allocated part of the park for the establishment of an indigenous cultural centre. The council has described the park as a place for holding feasts, ceremonies and dispute resolution.
Musgrave Park is home to the Jagera Arts Centre and is one of the few remaining green spaces left in Brisbane's inner city. On 24 August 1998, after twenty years of legal struggles with the Queensland state government, the Musgrave Park Aboriginal Corporation (MPAC) secured a lease to build a cultural centre on portions of the park. The park holds special significance to the local indigenous population due to a past restriction barring Aborigines from crossing the park and entering the city of Brisbane. Notably, being the site of a buried bora ring, it has historically been a sacred site to the native Murri people.
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