Newseum

The Newseum is a museum in Washington, D.C. about journalism. The museum was first opened in 1997 in Rosslyn (Virginia) and on 11 April 2008 in Washington, DC reopened. It has seven floors distributed exhibition area of ​​23,000 square meters and includes various galleries and theaters.

The museum, whose construction has cost 450 million U.S. dollars, was in large part by Freedom Forum, an American Association for speech and press freedom, finances. It stands between Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street, NW, in close proximity to Museum Mile on the National Mall. Front of the building and on its website it offers a daily comparison of front pages of dozens of international newspapers.

Exhibition design and architecture responsible Ralph Appelbaum, James Stewart Polshek and Todd Schliemann.

The Newseum is the biggest piece of the Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

The died in the Vietnam war photographer Larry Burrows, Henri Huet, Kent Potter and Keisaburo Shimamoto were honored at the opening of the museum in 2008 with a posthumous exhibition.