What is Museum and Memorial Park? Here’s where Chappell Roan will perform in KC
Pop star Chappell Roan is playing two shows in Kansas City for her “Visions of Damsels & Other Dangerous Things” pop-up, a concert series that’ll also take her to New York and Pasadena, California.
She’ll play two nights on Friday, Oct. 3, and Saturday, Oct. 4, at Museum and Memorial Park, according to the artist’s website.
The name of the venue might create a little confusion, but Kansas City residents should be familiar with the location. It’s hosted plenty of concerts and events in the past, including one mud-filled festival.
How will Museum and Memorial Park be set up?
Museum and Memorial Park’s address is 2 Memorial Drive, which is also the address for National WWI Museum and Memorial. The site hosted the NFL Draft Experience in 2023 and will host Kansas City’s FIFA Fan Festival in 2026.
The artist’s website has a map of the venue, showing fans where the stage will be and the entrances. Roan’s stage is set up near the walkway heading into the museum and surrounded by Liberty Memorial Path, a smaller setup than Rockfest’s two stages on the ends of the memorial and Penn Valley Park.
The website also lists event information, including encouraging fans to carpool to the venue since there 40,000 parking spaces in and around downtown, which the website says is a short walk to the area or the KC Streetcar line.
Street parking is first-come, first-served, and fans who want to line up before the gates open can arrive starting at 8 a.m. on the day of the show. Anyone who arrives earlier will be asked to leave, and there’s a city ordinance preventing people from being in the park overnight.
The concert organizers behind Roan’s shows opted to use the name “Museum and Memorial Park,” according to Karis Erwin, vice president of marketing and guest service for the museum.
What other concerts have been on Liberty Memorial grounds?
The site was also the location for Rockfest, a former rock festival that took place in Kansas City from 1992 to 2018. Popular rock bands filled Liberty Memorial from 2004 until 2017, when it moved to Kansas Speedway for its final two years.
One of the more notable Rockfests took place in 2014, when it turned into “Mudfest.” More than 50,000 fans packed the area even after the rainfall, which turned grassy areas around the two stages into mud ponds.
This story was originally published July 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM.
