National Arboretum, Tree conservation center in Canberra, Australia.

The National Arboretum is a 250-hectare arboretum in Canberra, Australia, created after the Christmas 2001 and 2003 bushfires. Its winning design by Taylor Cullity Lethlean and Tonkin Zulaikha Greer proposed 100 forests and 100 gardens of threatened, rare and symbolic trees. The Village Centre is a timber building with a broad curved roof banded by blue panels, dark brown window frames and rough grey stone walls; a rocky hill with a slender tower rises behind.

After the 2003 bushfires that devastated large parts of the hillsides, the Australian Capital Territory government began planting this site. The first trees were planted in 2005 and the visitor center opened several years later.

Ceremonial trees planted by visiting heads of government and ambassadors stand throughout the site, and the National Bonsai and Penjing Collection of Australia, formerly in Commonwealth Park, has been relocated here. On a hill, a 35-metre-long artwork spells "wide brown land" in Dorothea McKellar's own handwriting, taken from the manuscript of her poem My Country.

The paths wind through different forest sections and suit walks of different lengths, depending on how many tree collections you want to visit. The Village Centre offers information, rest spots, and orientation about the site.

A small grove preserves descendants of the Lone Pine, an Aleppo pine that stood on the Gallipoli Peninsula during World War I. Seeds from that tree were brought to Australia and planted here to remember the military campaign.