It's high-tech (you can create your own newscast to take home) & not free ($20), but outstanding... as it is a place to view (1) a wall of 60+ of the day's front pages; (2) ALL of the Pulitzer prize photos; & (3) montages of famous historical events & debates, sorted by decade & allowing for the viewer to select her desired database of video-clips, though everyone - including myself - keep uploading the summary of the 2008 election.
One floor is dedicated to the First Amendment. An entire wall displays a world map, tri-color-coded as to each country's press freedom. (see above). I was entirely surprised to see that 1/3+ of the world does not have free press (the purple countries). I'm naive. Maybe I've thought about these countries' limitations on freedom in other contexts, but seeing this map was startling. (code: green is free press; yellow is partly free; purple is not free).
Interactive Press Freedoms map online.
The exhibit on 9/11 was the most memorable. Along with more three-dimensional tributes, the museum has a set-off room to view a 12 min video of the footage from the day's events. It's told in a chronological format, so that the viewer watches the destruction in the timeline as it happened - using the best video footage in the nation that documented the event. powerful and haunting. It makes you really re-live the day's events, undesirable as this is.
There's also a faux Berlin wall, a sappy but enjoyable orientation video showcasing how news covers "love, hate, war, peace" & an exhibit on journalism ethics.
Newseum
1 comment:
wow. I had no idea. That map is fascinating!
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