Fans of The Ramones will soon be able to see a piece of punk rock history at the Queens Museum, not far from where members of the legendary band grew up in Forest Hills. NY1's Roger Clark filed the following report.

It's an unmistakable sound: the buzz-saw guitar and pounding drums of The Ramones.

"It came out as something that didn't sound like anything else, ever. And I think that is their great artistry," said Handsome Dick Manitoba, lead singer of The Dictators.

Pioneers of the city's punk rock scene of the 1970s, The Ramones are spotlighted in an exhibit at the Queens Museum called 'Hey! Ho! Let's Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk,' a collaboration with the Grammy Museum.

The Queens Museum is an appropriate spot for the tribute, since the band formed a just few neighborhoods away. NY1 got a sneak peek of the exhibit.   

"We put together more than 400 objects that really trace them from their roots in Forest Hills, all the way through their early shows, all the way through how contemporary artists along the way have interacted with them," said David Strauss, deputy director of the Queens Museum.

The exhibit coincides with the 40th anniversary of the Ramones' first record. Many of the items on display, including t-shirts, tour posters, road gear and, of course, leather jackets, are from the personal collections of the band's friends and family members.      

"It's been kind of a three-year odyssey, and we ended up the show being much better than we realistically expected when we started out." said curator Marc H. Miller. "We have so much great stuff."

Among those impressed is Manitoba, who visited the museum on Thursday. Like The Ramones, his band was a mainstay of the city's punk rock scene. Manitoba also was a friend of The Ramones' lead singer, Joey Ramone, who, like the other original members of the band, is now deceased.

"This is why The Ramones were great artists. Because they actually invented something," Manitoba said. "Everyone in the world has one fingerprint. The Ramones put their fingerprint on rock 'n roll."

If you want to see the exhibit up close, you have to wait until it opens on April 10. But it's going to be a big day. They are going to have live bands, and four other exhibits also opening at the museum at the same time.

For more information, head to queensmuseum.org.