Major hip-hop museum set to open in the Bronx, New York in 2023

Many deejays in the early days of hip hop used the Boombox aka the Ghetto Blaster for cueing monitors, others used the big electronic monster boxes to record their deejay sets. Boomboxes will be part of the artefacts at the Universal Hip Hop museum in New York. Photo: Universal Hip Hop Museum

Hip hop – the music, dance, art and fashion phenomenon that went from rough streets into fancy suites in five decades – is getting its own museum in its birthplace in the Bronx, New York.

A small pop-up exhibit gives a preview of the Universal Hip Hop Museum’s permanent home, set to open in 2023 to celebrate the culture’s global history.