If you are looking for a fun, rewarding way to spend an afternoon check out the new Newseum museum. Located on Pennslyvania Avenue near the Capitol, the Newseum is one of the few museums you have to pay admission but also where it is worth paying. The Newseum is a 250,000-square-foot museum of news, chronicling its history going back centuries.
Upon arriving at the Newseum, one is greeted with a wall of that day’s front-pages from across the country which instantly captures your attention as you search for your own local paper. The Newseum touches upon movements and points that those who study and practice Journalism hark on constantly. One exhibit featured a tri-colored map of the globe displaying which nations had what degree of a free press. Interestingly almost every country in South America, including Brazil, was in the middle on free press. A computer display next to the exhibit had features on every country with background and explanations of why they were their respective shade of free. Another exhibit was a memorial to fallen journalists. A haunting observation taken away from that exhibit was that they had left a very large amount of space open for more pictures of dead journalists to come.
The museum’s fourteen galleries feature all types of displays and multimedia features from a interactive section with games that test your knowledge of the first amendment to a room that literally has the Berlin Wall in it. The Berlin Wall display has a four or five section chunk of Berlin Wall as well as guard tower from the wall. The exhibit will send chills down your spine as you literally are standing beside an item of such great history. Another interesting exhibit was the September 11th exhibit which featured a full wall of the front-pages of newspapers from around the globe showing their covers on September 12th. It is interesting to see what papers said and how they used images on their covers; interestingly the New York Post had a mention to war in its headline, where is your head at Rupert Murdoch???
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