This is the room that reframes the whole trip. Sitting where Broadway's neon meets Fifth + Broadway, NMAAM is the only museum in the country dedicated to the more than 50 genres African Americans created — spirituals, blues, jazz, gospel, R&B, hip-hop — and it threads straight into the story of Jeff
Try: The Rivers of Rhythm interactive corridor tracing 50-plus genres, and the hands-on galleries where you can lay down your own track