Located in Washington DC, the Newseum is one of the world’s most interactive ‘museums’. Comprising of 250,000 square feet, the Newseum includes galleries, theatres, retail spaces and visitor services, giving each individual who walks through its doors a unique hands on experience to access news and media. Visitors can investigate five centuries of news history and view the up-to-the-second technology that the ever changing press industry needs along with hands-on exhibits that the old and young can enjoy.
What’s interesting about this you might ask? Well put it this way, if every major city had a dedicated ‘library’ like the Newseum of media accessible to the public, people wouldn’t just need to rely on newspapers and the television to feed their hunger for breaking stories along with shouting their views and opinions. Sure you can go to your local library or newsagent and select from a range of broadsheets and tabloids but this idea of having a central space of media and information is one I can see working across other major capitals. If London had one of these, and really pushed the up to dateness of what’s inside the building, obviously using modern technology, Twitter for example, would there be any need for individual news channels for example? If a ‘Newseum’ in every capital actually combined ‘real-time’ news with the newest technology as well as a ‘hands-on’ experience of the news, people would start to ‘take in’ the media in a completely new and unique way.
