Like many long weekend days in my life, I found a way to nerd out to the extreme last Sunday.
So I went to the Newseum, Washington’s D.C.’s epic six-story museum of the news.
Given I’m the type who walks around museums at a snails pace, but in five hours, I saw barely half the museum.
First, I checked out this sweet exhibit called “The FBI and the News” which consisted of small exhibits about famous criminals or incidents in American history, such as the Waco incident and the classic J. Edgar Hoover chase of John Dillinger in the 1930s.
Then I chilled with a 30 minute documentary about the history of sports reporting, much of what focused on Muhammad Ali, whose colorful personality transformed sports reporting into a larger cultural analysis for many reporters.
The documentary was one of like six or seven in the museum.
I then got sucked into this one room which consisted of every Pulitzer Prize winning photo in history. For many of the photos, there was a also a larger version on the surround wall and an accompanying description. It was a walk through history.
While most of my museum exploring in D.C. will probably consist of creating obscure theories about life by staring deeply into various art works in the Smithsonian, the Newseum should be a definite destination for anyone checking out D.C.
Recent comments