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Newseum
Blends High-Tech With Historical
The Newseum — a 250,000-square-foot museum of news — offers visitors an
experience that blends five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second
technology and hands-on exhibits.
The Newseum is located at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth
Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., on America’s Main Street between the White House
and the U.S. Capitol and adjacent to the Smithsonian museums on the National
Mall. The exterior’s unique architectural features include a 74-foot-high marble
engraving of the First Amendment and an immense front wall of glass through
which passers-by can watch the museum fulfill its mission of providing a forum
where the media and the public can gain a better understanding of each other.
The Newseum features seven levels of galleries, theaters, retail spaces and
visitor services. Its 14 galleries, 15 theaters, two state-of-the-art broadcast
studios and dozens of interactive activities offer a unique environment that
takes museumgoers behind the scenes to experience how and why news is made.
Some of our visitors' favorites include:
- The Pulitzer Prize Photographs Gallery, which boasts the most comprehensive
collection of prize-winning photographs.
- The News Corp. News History Gallery, where 500 years of newspaper front
pages create a timeline of history as news.
- The Berlin Wall Gallery, where visitors can stand beneath eight 12-foot-tall
concrete sections of the original wall and a three-story guard tower.
- The NBC News Interactive Newsroom, which provides fun for the whole family
with news-themed games and the chance to give a live report on camera.
- "I-Witness!", a 4-D time-travel adventure movie about three inspiring
journalists and their impact on history.
"Visitors will come away with a better understanding of news and the
important role it plays in all of our lives," said Newseum Executive Director
and Senior Vice President Joe Urschel. "The new Newseum is educational,
inspirational and a whole lot of fun."
To plan your visit, click newseum.org or call 888/NEWSEUM.
Every day, newseum.org features more than 500
newspaper front pages from around the world. Click here for links to the newspapers that
participate. For an archive of past recaps, visit the Today’s Front Pages
Archive here.
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Newseum Journalists Memorial
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