Hunter and Central Coast Development Corporation opened Museum Park, its $5 million transformation of the former Civic railway station, on Tuesday.
As two boys in the background showed off their parkour moves using some of the park's new landscape features, HCCDC chief executive Valentina Misevska, Liberal MLC Taylor Martin and lord mayor Nuatali Nelmes cut the ribbon on the city's newest public space.
Several groups of young children visiting the museum also put the park's lawns to good use on the day it opened.
The park, whose name was changed recently from the working title Museum Place, includes a sunken garden, trees, lawn and paving.
The park connects Hunter Street with Newcastle Museum and the Honeysuckle precinct and waterfront.
City of Newcastle will take over the former station building and convert it into the council's visitor information centre.
HCCDC has lodged development applications with the council for a $6.7 million landscaping project next to the former Newcastle railway station and a $4.1 million waterfront park at Honeysuckle.
