The history of news gathering (and all of its attendant issues, from muckraking to censorship, yellow journalism to libel) has finally been deemed worthy of a world-class museum, the just-opened NEWSEUM, on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.
The six-story limestone building, designed by Polshek Partnership, contains 250,000 square feet of theaters and interactive exhibits created to help the general public learn more about the sometimes perilous and occasionally scurrilous business of reporting. Replacing a former, smaller institution of the same name in Rosslyn, Virginia, this cavernous attraction sits, appropriately enough, a stone's throw from the Capitol — a building whose occupants frequently find themselves in the media's crosshairs.
Our favorite find: On the fifth floor, keep an eye out for the glass drawer containing the very first magazine produced on U.S. soil, Andrew Bradford's American Magazine, published in 1741.
555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW; 888-639-7386; newseum.org.
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