As you may know, I spent approximately the last week in Washington DC. This time around I enjoyed a day at the Newseum. Unfortunately, it’s one of the DC museums that actually costs money, but for that money you get interactive, clean, sleek design (unlike some of the less-updated museums, such as the Air & Space Museum).
The Newseum is one among a brand of new “edutainment” museums popping up in DC (the New York Times recently reviewed some of these museums here).
My favorite exhibit, “Today’s Front Pages”, was on the top floor.
“More than 500 newspapers transmit their front pages electronically to the Newseum every day. Up to 80 are enlarged and printed for display in this gallery — among them one from every state and the District of Columbia as well as a sampling of international newspapers. Additional front pages are displayed outside the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue” (newseum.org).
I also enjoyed the special exhibit on G-Men & Journalists, where I got to see the actual cabin that the Unabomber lived in (yes, this is exciting to me). My cousins (and my aunts, actually) really enjoyed making their own newscast, which was later availible for download online.
If you’d like, take a 3D tour of the museum here, but I recommend an in-person visit!
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this is enough to convince me to spend the $ on it!
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