Kings Domain, Urban park in Melbourne, Australia

Kings Domain is a 36-hectare urban parkland in central Melbourne, part of the larger 123-hectare Domain Parklands bounded by the Yarra River, Anderson Street, Domain Road and St Kilda Road. It surrounds the Government House Reserve, the Shrine of Remembrance and the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, and holds La Trobe's Cottage, relocated here in 1963. Lawns and paths run among mature native and non-native trees, both deciduous and evergreen, and memorial statues and sculptures stand throughout the grounds.

The park opened in 1854, making it one of Melbourne's oldest public green spaces, initially cleared land that gradually filled with trees planted by botanist Baron Ferdinand von Mueller. La Trobe's Cottage, built in 1839 for the first leader of the Port Phillip District, was relocated here in 1963.

The park lies on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people. At the Kings Domain Resting Place, a granite burial rock honours Aboriginal people of Victoria; the remains of 38 Aboriginal people were buried here after the Melbourne Museum handed them to the Aboriginal Community in 1985, following a legal action proposed by the Koorie Heritage Trust.

The park is open every day and easy to reach on foot from central Melbourne, sitting close to St Kilda Road. Because it contains both memorial areas and open recreation space, it is worth keeping a respectful tone near the Shrine of Remembrance.

The Sidney Myer Music Bowl, inside the park, is one of Australia's oldest outdoor concert venues and is known for its sweeping roof made of fabric stretched over a steel frame. During summer concerts, audiences often spill onto the surrounding hillside well beyond the covered seating area.