2013

It all started when Jeremy, our founder, was inspired by a busy-board his brother had built his nephew. This busy-board was simply a piece of wood with different items from around the house attached to keep children busy. Surprised to see thousands of homemade busy-boards on Pinterest and no commercial equivalent the brothers set about creating one which became MURO.

2014

The eureka moment came with the realisation that what made busy-boards so popular was that parents created them for their children. From this point on the challenge became to design an open platform that would enable parents to create beautiful and unique busy-boards for their children.

2015 & 2016

These were some long years and MURO progressed slowly with varying degrees of enthusiasm. At some points it looked as though MURO may not happen, but we persevered, we refined our designs and we found a manufacturer!

2017

may
Successfully funded on Kickstarter.
 
september
Awarded a Creator Award from wework in recognition of our educational and development focus.
 
december
The first MURO's arrive just in time for Christmas.

2018

march
Website launched and the beginning of trading.
 
june
Full marks in good toy guide’s testing with parents and teacher.
 
october
Win the Junior and Made for Mums awards, as well as receiving the editors choice award in both.

2019

Awarded a red dot design award, the worlds most prestigious and recognisible product design award.