You can see the Capitol and the National Gallery from the 6th floor balcony.
I didn't expect to find a chunk of the Berlin Wall.
Another gallery houses the antenna that once topped one of the Twin Towers.
It also includes Page One coverage of the 2001 terrorist attacks from around the world.
The gallery that shows how newspapers have covered a century of events appealed to me a lot more. Queen Elizabeth has reigned over the British Empire for as long as I've been alive.
A special exhibit focuses on "1968." Here's how the Black Panthers covered the reaction to the 1968 Olympic protest. Little besides the language has changed in 50 years!
Camera phones have transformed journalism almost as much as the printing press by turning ordinary citizens into reporters.
It's surprising how little of the world has a free (green) press.
And sad how many journalists and photographers have been murdered trying to keep the public informed.
But the Newseum's curators know how to lighten up, too. There's an exhibit about "First Dogs." If the current occupant of the White House pulled up a dog by his ears, public outrage would probably be great enough to impeach him. But according to one of his wives, "he's not a dog person."
The bathroom humor is genuinely amusing.
UPDATE: Due to poor attendance, the Freedom Forum, which funded the Newseum, sold the Pennsylvania Avenue property and closed its doors at the end of 2019. In 2023, the building re-opened as a satellite campus of Johns Hopkins University.
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