The Royal Mining Engineering Jubilee Exhibition of 1887 was held in Bull Park, on the corner of Town Moor in Newcastle. Following this Bull Park increasingly became known as Exhibition Park.

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The North East Coast Exhibition was opened by the Prince of Wales on the 14th of May, 1929. It was a world fair which ran from May to October 1929, held in Newcastle in what is now Exhibition Park. Some of the Art Deco style buildings constructed for the exhibition can still be seen today. Over 4 million people attended the exhibition by the time it closed on the 26th October 1929.

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The Military Vehicle Museum opened in 1983 and was formerly located in the Palace of Arts in Exhibition Park in Newcastle. The museum was run by North East Land, Sea & Air Museums (NELSAM); a group of enthusiasts who first began meeting in 1974.

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The Wylam Brewery micro-brewery and events space in Exhibition Park, Newcastle, opened on the 27th May 2016. It is located in the Palace of Arts building, which was originally built for the North East Coast Exhibition of 1929. The building had been disused for almost a decade, before re-opening as Wylam Brewery, which hosts live music and other events.

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