Newseum

Today I finally spent the twenty dollars to visit the one of the hottest museums in DC the NEWSeum which examines the history of journalism and photojournalism.

Now the museum is a very modern and user friendly museum and the exhibits are fantastic, and on the weekends they bring in professionals related to the journalism field to discuss the news and today was no different as Washington Post reporter Michael Fletcher who covers the White House answered questions for half an hour, but more on this later.

The best exhibits in my opinion happen to be on the Berlin Wall and media coverage of 9/11. The museum main attraction the 4-D movie is extremely short and only gives brief introduction into three reports including Nelie Bly. Yet with pretense of being a museum and having an enormous building there are very few actual exhibits which in my opinion makes the price a little exorbitant for the amount of information presented.

The Newseum is very impressive, but if your not a member I would suggest visiting on a weekend when a journalist is speaking. This information can be found on the Newseum's website.