Washington, DC

Last summer when my family came to D.C. on vacation I thought of taking my little brother to the Newseum because I remember enjoying it on my 8th grade trip back in 2001 and I thought he would enjoy it. Well, that was when I discovered it was no longer open in Rosslyn. We soon learned it was being moved when we walked by the construction site on our way to the International Spy Museum (big disappointing attraction by the way!). Since then I had forgotten about the museum (I was not blogging on D.C. back then) and I was just reminded of it watching the news earlier this week. The Newseum is opening to the public at its new location in downtown D.C. tomorrow, April 11, 2008. Best of all it is a free admission day (meaning I plan to go and probably be doing a post about it tomorrow or it will be next week’s Special Topic Tuesday or both like I did with the Lincoln Cottage).

Before the 9am opening there will be a block party from 7am to 8:45am on Pennsylvania Avenue between 4th and 6th Streets. This will include The Newseum News Hound (mascot, I assume), New York Express Roller Dance Company, caricatures, historical newspeople, and free refreshments.

The museum has 14 galleries including The New York Times–Ochs-Sulzberger Family Great Hall of News; News Corporation News History Gallery; NBC News Interactive Newsroom; 9/11 Gallery; Internet, TV and Radio Gallery; Pulitzer Prize Photographs Gallery; Berlin Wall Gallery (this is one of the main galleries I remember from seeing the old museum, it has a section of the wall); Cox Enterprises First Amendment Gallery; Time Warner World News Gallery; Pulliam Family Great Books Gallery; Today’s Front Pages Gallery; Journalists Memorial; ABC News Changing Exhibits Gallery; and Hank Greenspun Terrace on Pennsylvania Avenue.

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