The Newseum is a 250,000-square-foot museum of news history, showcasing technology over seven levels of galleries. A museum you can easily spend days in, in fact your entry ticket allows you to return the following day. There's also a wonderful cafe and restaurant run by Wolfgang Puck.
The museum's goal is to educate the public on the value of a
free press in a free society, to tell the stories of the world's
important events and to take you behind the scenes to experience how and why news is made.
Great resources for classroom teachers. See Digital Classroom link at the bottom of the page.
original newspapers dating from 1455
quote from U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren
The building was designed by the New York City-based Polshek Partnership and described by them as "a kind of giant, three-dimensional newspaper whose primary purpose is to communicate the nature of news to a diverse audience: that is, the press as a “window on the world.”"
The exterior of the building includes a 74-foot-high marble engraving of the First Amendment and the interior is filled with wall engravings of news related quotes.
quote from Justice Thurgood Marshal, US Supreme Court
Award winning series of portraits of African American activists, the White House News Photographers Association
Personal highlights included the photography throughout, the 9/11 exhibit and an exhibition on the Berlin Wall. The exhibit contains the largest display of unaltered portions of the original wall outside of Germany, a three-story East German guard tower saved from demolition near Checkpoint Charlie and a small piece of the wall you can touch.
Berlin Wall sections showed from the West
East German guard tower
World Trade Center antennae in the 9/11 exhibit
front page covers from around the world on 9/11
Journalist Memorial, a tribute to journalists who have died pursuing the news. Names are etched in glass on the left and images added to a wall on the right
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