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.