City Gallery uses 'Hamilton'-style music to explore Indy

As the smash-hit musical "Hamilton" has taught us, the best way to learn about history is through hip hop. And a local arts and culture organization is using a similar style to tell Indianapolis' story.

Spearheaded by City Gallery interns Sammie Brown and Okara Imani, the Hip Hoperetta Musical History Tours program uses headphones and "silent disco technology" to help teach the history of Herron High School and the Harrison Center for the Arts in an engaging way. The songs are well-performed and slickly produced. See for yourself:

“From the outside, you see these groups of people on the Herron campus with headphones on, and they’re kind of bopping along" said Imani. "But in reality they’re getting all this information on the architectural details of the buildings and historical story material from these buildings and why they were built."

There are plans to roll the program out citywide. What's next? Monument Circle is obvious but would get good use. Irvington? Indiana Avenue? A comprehensive history of the failure of the Central Canal? Leave your suggestions in the comments.

Allison Carter is an engagement producer at IndyStar and would like to see this for her apartment, which is reportedly haunted. Follow her on Twitter @AllisonLCarter.