The Newseum

On Saturday I went into DC with a friend and saw the Newseum, a fairly newish museum (HA!) on Penn Ave. It was very cool, and very large. We ended up spending the whole day in there.

On the top floor they have a balcony with some amazing views of DC. Like the Capitol.



Or the mall:




And it's right across from the National Art Gallery, which has the best cafeteria of all the Smithsonians, for those brave and intrepid souls who manage to find it.


Once you've finished looking around and taking pictures, you work your way down through 14 exhibits and 15 theaters (Holy Crap!)

It was very interesting, and a little intense. Not very kid friendly. On the third floor they have stations where you can play games, or get in front of the camera and do a weather report, there were a lot of kids there, and they also liked the 4D movie (which was free!) but in other exhibits I'd hear things like "Is that man on fire?" "What happened to the baby?" "Is that lady falling? Did she die?"

It's hard for adults too. In the Pulitizer Prize Photo gallery a lady next to me threw up her arms and said "I can't do this anymore" and walked out.

So it's a bit like the Holocaust museum. Good. Humbling. Horrifiying.

They have this massive room filled with a papers from every year, starting back from the first days of the printing press, and on the street they have a paper from each state showing the day's Headlines.

On Saturday, it was all about McCain's VP pick, Governer Palin, who I'm excited about, so it was fun walking past all those papers.

If you're coming to DC, and you're a news/politics junkie, it's definetly worth checking out.