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| NEWSEUM At Night - The museum is set to officially Friday, April 11, 2008. Image Credit: NEWSEUM Pressroom |
Washington D.C. Opens New Museum - NEWSEUM
Originally Published April 10, 2008 - 8:27am - Edmund Jenks, MAXINE
The nation’s capitol city, Washington D.C., plays host to a new major
museum dedicated to news, news gathering, news print, production and
broadcast, news workers and memoriam, and a Newsroom where interviews are
broadcast.
NEWSEUM – The interactive Museum Of News, is located adjacent to the
Smithsonian museums on the National Mall at the intersection of Pennsylvania
Avenue and Sixth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C..
The official dedication ceremony and opening is scheduled for Friday, April
11, 2008. The Newseum features seven levels of galleries, theaters, retail
spaces and visitor services. It offers a unique environment that takes
museumgoers behind the scenes to experience how and why news is made.
A $25 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
to the Newseum — the largest investment from the news community to the
newest museum in the nation's capital — will honor the news legacy of
the Knight brothers. The grant gives the Knight name to two broadcast
studios and a conference center at the Newseum, the largest single
project ever devoted to journalism and the free flow of news. Image
Credit: NEWSEUM Pressroom
This morning, NEWSEUM held one of its first broadcasts of a live news
conference from a studio inside the museum.
The joint news conference began with statements from General David Petraeus
and Ambassador Ryan Crocker on the status of conditions in Iraq, followed by
questions fielded from the audience (presumably museumgoers and actual
reporters) as a final appearance after their debriefing reports delivered to
the Senate and Congress over the last couple of days.
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| 5 Freedoms Walkway - Image Credit: NEWSEUM Pressroom |
This excerpted from the NEWSEUM website –
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. ----
"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." ----
What They're Saying - A look at media coverage of the Newseum
“Were he alive today, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan would have appreciated
the Newseum, opening April 11 on the last revitalized site along
Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest.
He spearheaded the four-decade-long effort to revive the inaugural parade
route with distinguished buildings and open spaces worthy of “America’s Main
Street.” The Newseum caps his vision with contemporary architecture far
bolder than the last major design completed on the street. … It is sheathed
in glass, not masonry, to reveal some of its activity inside and counter the
sealed-up monumentality so prevalent in Washington.”
— Deborah K. Dietsch, The Washington Times “An endless network of corridors
and theaters contains a wealth of news materials that are, at least to
someone of my generation, a wonderful and moving evocation of the past. …
The Newseum is an attic simply packed with fascinating stuff.”
— Robert Campbell, The Boston Globe “The new incarnation of the Newseum is
dazzling, innovative and absorbing, a first-class addition to the capital's
cultural institutions.”
— Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post “From every frenetic corner, the
Newseum fairly shouts, ‘News is necessary to a functioning democracy. News
is fun, news is cool, news matters.’”
— Maria Puente, USA Today “Many Washington museums document the nation’s
history. ... As it elevates and illuminates the usually gritty, sometimes
glamorous work of the press, the Newseum looks set to give its neighbors
some competition.”
— Owen Phillips, Men's Vogue The Newseum is "among the most prominent"
museums in the world, "perched on the last buildable site on the
presidential inaugural parade route between the Capitol and the White House.
And it is one of the most ambitious, both in design and
aspiration."
— Katharine Q. Seelye, The New York Times "At a time when journalists are
reeling from scathing rebukes and public skepticism about their profession,
the gleaming Newseum is poised to become a welcome reminder of all that's
good about the business."
— Jessica Meyers, American Journalism Review "The importance of the First
Amendment is hard to miss at the Newseum: Visitors are greeted with a
three-story-high engraving of the amendment's words next to the front
entrance. ... The new location has a commanding view of the
Capitol."
— APME Gazette "The Newseum will be particularly exciting because officials
expect it will be a place to spot news personalities and newsmakers
alike."
— Elizabeth Brotherton, Roll Call ----
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KNIGHT FOUNDATION JOINS NEWSEUM'S FOUNDING PARTNERS WITH A LEAD
CONTRIBUTION OF $25 MILLION
Conference Center, Broadcast Studios to Be Named in Honor of Knight
Brothers
WASHINGTON —
A $25 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to the
Newseum — the largest investment from the news community to the newest
museum in the nation's capital — will honor the news legacy of the Knight
brothers.
Opening April 11 on Pennsylvania Avenue, the new 250,000-square-foot,
interactive museum of news will remind generations of Washington visitors of
the importance of the First Amendment, free speech and the role of the media
in a free society.
The grant gives the Knight name to two broadcast studios and a conference
center at the Newseum, the largest single project ever devoted to journalism
and the free flow of news. ----
"The Newseum will immediately become one of the most important platforms
for discussion of free speech in America," said Alberto Ibargüen, president
of Knight Foundation. "We want to be part of that conversation, we want our
journalism grantees to be part of that conversation and we want the values
the Knight brothers stood for and defended to be integral to that
conversation." ----
Once opened, the new museum's two Knight broadcast studios, including the
Pennsylvania Avenue Studio overlooking the U.S. Capitol, will be the
location of top-flight news programs and civic dialogue on the issues of the
day.
"Millions of Americans travel to the National Mall to learn more how to be
an American," said Steiger, editor in chief of ProPublica. "It's fitting for
the Fourth Estate to take up residence there." Knight Foundation joins a
host of supporters from news and journalism contributing to the Newseum,
including the Annenberg Foundation, The New York Times, News Corporation,
Cox Enterprises, Hearst Corporation, ABC News, NBC News and Time Warner.
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KSAS-TV Channel 5 News Heliocopter - Image Credit: NEWSEUM Pressroom
Addmission Hours
The Newseum is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily and is closed on
Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day.
2008 General Admission Rates * • Adults (13 to 64): $20 * • Seniors (65 and
older): $18 * • Youth (7 to 12): $13 * • Children (6 and younger): Free * •
Group discounts are available. School Groups Public and private school
students in grades 1–12 in The Washington Post metropolitan market receive
free, general admission through March 31, 2009.
To qualify, schools must make group reservations in advance. The schools
must be located in one of the jurisdictions listed below. College and
university student groups located in the same areas listed below also
receive free admission through March 31, 2009. To qualify, colleges must
make group reservations in advance.
One Question:
(spawned after a review of the names of supporters contributing to the
NEWSEUM)
Will the New Media spur of the “fourth estate” get its own Wing and Blogging
studio?
Anytime soon?
NowPublic Awarded
NEWSEUM closes it's doors for good on February 19, 2021 - and in this age of
Social Media censoring, dubious "Fact Checking", and account
suspension/cancellation along with outright social portal de-platforming from
server farms (as what happened with the 1 Billion dollar social media platform
PARLER being pulled off of Amazon Web Services server farm - without notice or
cause given tenants of Free Speech) supported by America's Fourth Estate -
this is good.
Yes, the Newseum’s First Amendment Tablet Is Coming Down.
No, It’s Not
Because Democracy Has Failed.
The 50-ton, 74-foot-tall marble tablet is going into storage, and maybe
someday, a new home.
WRITTEN BY MIMI MONTGOMERY, Washingtonian | PUBLISHED ON
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Yesterday, photojournalist Megan Smith tweeted out now-viral images of the tablet being disassembled from the building’s facade. Of course, because this is the internet, some folks decided this was an apt metaphor for the state of today’s media, or a reflection of the Biden administration’s approach toward journalists.
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In reality, the tablet is coming down because…the museum is closed and the building has been sold. You can still check it out, though: The display hasn’t been fully taken apart, says a Freedom Forum representative. Once it is fully disassembled, it will go into storage, says the representative, with hopes to find it a home where it can be permanently displayed.
ENDS
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1 comment:
This is awesome, Ed! Can't make it to the opening, but plan to visit sometime in the near future. Thanks for sending to me.
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