Newseum

One of the coolest and most interesting places to visit in DC is the Newseum. The Newseum is just what it sounds like, a museum with news. Offering many hands on exhibits, interactive software, and even a 4-D movie which was very fun. There are 7 floors of exhibits so it is hard to see everything in one day that is why you have a 2 day pass. The bottom floor offers prize winning pictures as well as weapons and stories from mobsters and a piece of the berlin wall ( by piece I mean tower and 20 feet of wall). Working your way up each level offers something new. The building itself boasts modern day architecture and the view of the capital from the top balcony is on of the best in DC. Besides the layout of the museum some of the more interesting exhibits are dogs of the presidents, front page headlines and the 9/11 section dealing with movies clipings and the radio transmitter of one the world trade center. In the dogs of the presidents exhibit dogs are shown with their respective presidents. It shows how news has covered many different aspects of peoples life and just how intimate the relationship of media and people go together. A president does not have a lot of time but the fact that someone was able to article this and tell a story with it shows a lot about news. The next exhibit I really enjoyed was the front page headlines, In this exhibit rows of papers showing the front page of certain newsworthy days. For Instance Katrina and 9/11 were shown alot. This was interesting to me because you get to see how different papers write differently about the news but all have the same basic point to get across. The last exhibit I visited was very interesting as well as sad. It was the 9/11 exhibit offering pictures letters and movies about the victims their families and even the one reporter who died trying to cover the story. For a Journalist the Newseum is our history, the past and the present, It lets us know that even if sometimes a story is not as big as another there is someone out there who really appreciates it.News tells our history and keeps records of it and the Newseum is a great way for young students as well as adults to learn more about the great profession of journalism
and Journalists.