Johnstone Park stretches in the heart of Geelong, close to the City Hall Art Gallery, Municipal Library and the train station Geelong. In the park you can see the War Memorial and the pavilion for the orchestra.

Once on the site, which is now the Johnstone Park, brook Western Gully, carrying their water in the bay of Corio Bay. In 1849, the creek was blocked by a dam where today is isolation Geringep Street. Two years later the dam was surrounded by a fence after it sank at least one man and seven horses. A v1872, the surrounding area was turned into a public park, named the former mayor of Geelong Robert De Bruce Johnstone. The park stretches from Geringep Street to Latrobe Terrace. In December of the same year, it hosted the first concert performed by the troupe of the Artillery Corps Geelong. In 1873, the park built octagonal wooden stage, and a year later installed a fountain Belcher, donated to the city by another former mayor George Frederick Belcher. In 1887, the park had to be reduced due to the construction in the western part of the Technical College of Gordon.

The 20th century brought new changes: in 1915, near the park was built Art Gallery, and in 1919 - War Memorial erected in memory of those killed in the First World War. Memorial consisted of two rows of columns, the pavilion in the center and monuments of the world next to the gallery. Hall was later listed as a heritage of the Victorian era. Fountain Belcher first moved to another location in 1912 due to construction of the tram lines, and in 1956 returned back after the trams have stopped going around the city. In 2008, it was restored and today it pleases the eye of visitors in the north-eastern part of Johnstone Park.