A hip hop museum is ready to open in New York's the Bronx borough, extensively thought-about to be the birthplace of the style, in 2023.
The Universal Hip Hop Museum will likely be devoted to commemorating the historical past of hip hop music.
According to amNewYork, the museum will likely be located in south Bronx at 65 E. 149th St., alongside the Harlem River waterfront, with development to start later this yr.
Hip-hop pioneer Kurtis Blow is the co-chairman of the museum. He has expressed his want for the museum to make use of trendy technological developments to have fun the legacy of historical past of hip-hop music.
Speaking to Forbes, Blow acknowledged: “I am speaking avatars and holograms and VR. Part of the museum expertise may even focus the interactive parts, and guests will be capable to file music and make graffiti artwork on-site. "As time winds down on numerous our careers... we predict that it’s an necessary plea that our legacies and our histories may be in a single place for the entire world to see," he added.
The 2023 launch date goals to tie in with the 50th anniversary of what's thought-about to be the invention of the style.
Mos Def additionally introduced plans to open an artwork gallery devoted to hip-hop final yr.
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