Newseum
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 Location within Washington, D.C.
Location within Washington, D.C.
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| Established | April 18, 1997 |
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| Location | 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C., USA |
| Coordinates | 38°53′36″N 77°01′09″W / 38.893219°N 77.01924°W |
| Director | Jeffrey Herbst, President and CEO |
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| Website | www.newseum.org |
The Newseum is an interactive museum that promotes free expression and the five freedoms of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, while tracing the evolution of print and electronic communication from earliest days of the United States to the technologies of the present and the future. The modern seven-level, 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m2) museum is located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, in Washington, D.C. features 15 theaters and 15 galleries. The Newseum's Berlin Wall Gallery includes the largest display of sections of the Berlin Wall outside of Germany. The Today's Front Pages Gallery presents daily front pages from more than 80 international newspapers. Other galleries present topics including the First Amendment, world press freedom, news history, the September 11 attacks, and the history of the Internet, TV, and radio. It opened at its first location in Rosslyn, Virginia, on April 18, 1997, and on April 11, 2008, it opened to the public in its current location.
Its mission is to promote, explain and defend free expression and the five freedoms of the First Amendment: religion, speech, press, assembly and petition.
The new Newseum has become one of Washington's most popular destinations, attracting more than 815,000 visitors a year, and its high definition television studios hosts news broadcasts. The adult admission fee (in 2017) is $24.95 plus tax ($26.38 after tax). Despite such high admission fees, however, it has seen years of financial losses. In 2013, the museum lost more than $4 million on revenue of $63 million.
In 2000, Freedom Forum decided to move the Newseum from its location in Arlington, Virginia, across the Potomac River to downtown Washington, D.C. The original Newseum was closed on March 3, 2002, to allow its staff to concentrate on building the new, larger museum. The new museum, built at a cost of $450 million, opened its doors to the public on April 11, 2008.
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