Newseum

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The Newseum in Washington

The Newseum was a museum in Washington, DC on journalism . The museum first opened in 1997 in Rosslyn, Virginia and reopened on April 11, 2008 in Washington, DC. It had an exhibition space of 23,000 square meters spread over seven floors and included various galleries and cinemas. The building was sold to Johns Hopkins University.

The museum, which cost 450 million US dollars to build, was largely funded by Freedom Forum , an American association for freedom of speech and the press . It's between Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street, NW, just off Museum Mile on the National Mall . In front of the building and on its website, it offered a daily comparison of the front pages of dozen international newspapers .

Ralph Appelbaum , James Stewart Polshek and Todd Schliemann were responsible for the exhibition design and architecture .

Replica of the Unabomber's shed

The Newseum housed the largest piece of the Berlin Wall outside of Germany and a replica of Theodore Kaczynski's hut .

The photographers Larry Burrows , Henri Huet , Kent Potter and Keisaburo Shimamoto , who perished in the Vietnam War, were honored with a posthumous exhibition at the opening of the museum in 2008.

The future of the Newseum was considered uncertain after it became known in September 2017 that the building would be sold and the museum was making massive losses.

On its homepage it now made the closure and whereabouts of exhibits public.

Web links

Commons : Newseum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berlin Wall at the Newseum ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Germany.info @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.germany.info
  2. ↑ Spiegel Online: Four Dead and a Glass Grave , April 3, 2008. Last accessed May 10, 2008
  3. ↑ America's press museum is counted. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, September 11, 2017
  4. ^ Newseum: About the Newseum. In: https://www.newseum.org/ . January 1, 2020, accessed January 1, 2020 .

Coordinates: 38 ° 53 '34.9 "  N , 77 ° 1' 9.7"  W.