Newseum

Monica Salazar:

Newseum The Newseum of Washington D.C is an interactive museum of news and journalism. Its mission is to help the public and the news media to understand one another better and improve their existing relationship. Another goal of the museum is to raise public awareness of the important role a free press in a democratic society is and the huge impact it has on the news. The Newseum explores five centuries of news history and blends them with modern technology to create exhibits that display the museum’s mission in creative presentations. It is one of the world’s most technologically advanced museums. This museum tells the stories of the world’s important events in unique, engaging and educational ways. It offers a perfect environment to have the opportunity to experience how and why news are made, and the different ways they are told a nd printed throughout the world and around the years.

The original Newseum in Arlington, Virginia was closed on March 3, 2002 and translated from its original location to Washington D.C. It is now adjacent to the Smithsonian Institution, located between the White House and U.S, Capitol. Its official address is 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington D.C.

It became the largest museum solely dedicated to journalism standing as a 250,000 square foot museum of news designed by Polshek Partnership Architects, who created several memorable experiences that mix with the buildings unique design. This whole installment was founded by Freedom Forum, though the museum remains independent from any media companies.

The museum has seven levels of display, fifteen theaters, fourteen main exhibition galleries, two broadcast studios and an expanded interactive newsroom. This allows visitors to truly enjoy the message relayed by the museum the moment they step inside. It also has a food court, a Newseum Store, a conference center, a restaurant (Source by Wolfgang Puck) and residential apartments. One of the main galleries the Newseum makes available is the News Corporation News History Gallery, which is the museum’s largest gallery, traces more than 500 years of news and includes five theaters that explore specific themes. There is also the Time Warner World News Gallery, where visitors watch television news and learn about the dangers reporters face reporting the news, and the Bloomberg Internet, TV and Radio Gallery, which is devoted to the history of electronic news.

The interactive newsroom is located in the Bancroft Family Ethics Center. It is a unique group interactive experience that challenges two teams of players to answer a series of questions and be the first to fill in the front page of their team’s newspaper. Theaters such as the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Theater present film screenings, debates and artistic performances that offer a variety of diverse viewing experiences.

Guests are surrounded by the Great Hall of News once they step inside the 90 foot high atrium, where a media screen will feature historical and current events and breaking news. Also, outside the museum there is a rotating daily exhibit of the front pages of more than 450 newspapers from around the world on public display. It also includes a 74 foot high marble engraving of the First Amendment for everyone to enjoy. All these features contained inside the Newseum explore news history, electronic news, photojournalism and world news, and they form part of the Newseum. It traces the history of news reporting from the 16th century to present day and explores how the media may have covered major historical events throughout the years. It depicts the transformation of news throughout the years, changing along with the times and educates about the history of news in entertaining ways.

The Newseum seemed very interesting to me, mainly because it’s a place dedicated to keep track of news from around the world and throughout the years. Being able to do so and then add up-to-the-second technology to the exhibits is impressive. I wouldn’t mind visiting the Newseum and touring all its exhibits and displays. I had never heard of the Newseum before, and this project gave me the chance to gather more information and find out more facts about this museum. I was surprised to find out that the Newseum was originally located in Virginia before being moved to Washington D.C. and the fact that they had stored over more than five centuries worth of news from all around the world.

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=**﻿By: Jorge Escribano Fernandez**=

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="display: block; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 1.2pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">If you want to know about history, don’t even ask, just go we no doubt to this place. Is most effective, confident, and efficient place you can ever go. It has tons and tons of information you can imagine, you will never finish it, and it’s a bunch of it. I guess, this plays honors everyone because particularly it talks about everyone or everything throughout the world. Lots of news that will never end, they have about 30,000 historical newspapers. || ||
 * Intro**
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This is a splendid and huge museum which you can tell by its name it’s about news. Actually, even if it looks a little bit boring… Well, it isn’t because it has news from 5 centuries! I mean, can you imagine how much newspapers or information they have on this museum?! This museum will tell anything you might not even know or thought. To read everything in the museum, it will take about months or even years to finish! I mean, they have 5 centuries of news! They even have a large piece of Berlin’s wall. ** || [[image:http://megmiraglia.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/the-newseum.jpg width="365" height="306"]] ||
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 1.2pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The Newseum was originally located in Arlington, Virginia, but Freedom Forum wanted to have a larger Newseum so, they moved in to Washington D.C. with a larger area to build. Freedom Forum was a basically a company of newspapers. They had about 23,000 thousand meters squared of land, and to finish the building they pay up about 450 million dollars. Cheap, huh? They have three major objectives: A wonderful design that will mark our visitors though out the world and make never forget this place; celebrate the first amendment of US Constitution, freedom of speech and press specially; and build the new Newseum three times larger than the original one to make the capacity of this museum for more than 2 million of visitors a year. ** || [[image:http://www.nomaders.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/newseum_1.jpg width="357" height="317"]] ||
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 1.2pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The building has 27 meters //atrium// high (meaning modern architecture.) It has seven levels in its interior, 15 theaters, and 14 enormous galleries. In level 3 it has this 2 vast broadcast studios and an interactive news room where you can even do your own report! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> [|Ralph Appelbaum] (architect who design original Newseum) and [|James Stewart Polshek] were the architects who design this magnificent building. To “celebrate” the first amendment they have outside the building on the corner a large image of the first amendment, in other words, written on the wall very big. They even have an immense room about the amendments. Over the years, there have been lots of changes. If you compare the new Newseum with the old one, it is a remarkable change, especially on its size. The old Newseum was closed on March 3, 2002, to build the new Newseum in Washington D.C. The new Newseum was open in April 11, 2008. **
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0in 0in 1.2pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35.4pt;">** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Two things that really called my attention were the nine-eleven events and Berlin’s wall. In the nine-eleven event there was this huge piece left of the twin towers and as I saw it I guess it was the peak of the building, but it was huge, I mean it was like 6 meters tall. Next to the piece there was a wall with all the newspapers of the entire world talking about the nine-eleven events on its heading. It was impressive how many newspapers were on that wall. Also, around the piece there was a round table with the moments that passé during the attack, every single hour. I will be extremely pleased to come back to the Newseum because when I saw it the first time I was like very bored because it was huge, but as I walked through every corner I didn’t wanted to leave. Best museum I have gone in my entire life, learned so much. ** || [[image:http://www.infowars.net/pictures/sept08/110908towers.jpg width="365" height="272"]] ||