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• Description of Pictures: A couple of quickies of the exhibit area where the Elvis display will be going. It's replacing both the Don Bolles car and the Woodstock exhibit.
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• Description of Subject Matter: Note that due to copyright restrictions, the Newseum called me and asked if I would remove pictures of the various exhibits. I have done so. As a result, you won't be able to see much of what's in the Newseum but, at least for me, it is definitely worth visiting.
  
  Various exhibit halls as described on the official web site at http://www.newseum.org
  
  The New York Times–Ochs-Sulzberger Family Great Hall of News
  Surrounded by the Flow of Information
  Around, above and below, visitors to the Great Hall of News are surrounded by a continuous flow of news. Instant, breaking, historic news that is uncensored, diverse and free.
  This soaring, 90-foot-high atrium showcases breaking news on its giant Electronic Window on the World screen; the latest headlines are constantly updated on an electronic zipper. Suspended from above are two icons of modern news gathering and transmission – a satellite replica and a Bell helicopter.
  
  News Corporation News History Gallery
  The Story of News
  This gallery tells the timeless story of news, of many voices struggling to be heard, and of the people and machines that spread that news.
  At the gallery's center is a timeline that showcases the Newseum's extensive collection of historic newspapers and magazines. Within the timeline are 10 touch-screens that offer interactive games, a database of journalists and close-up views of hundreds of publications. The cases along the gallery walls examine recurring issues that confront journalists and feature hundreds of artifacts and personal memorabilia. Five theaters feature videos that explore some of those issues in greater depth.
  
  NBC News Interactive Newsroom
  Sitting in the Hot Seat
  News breaks, and a deadline is looming. Can you prepare a complete, timely and accurate report? The Interactive Newsroom gives visitors a chance to play the role of a reporter or photographer.
  Here, touch-screen stations provide the reporting tools and techniques needed to see what it takes to be a phot ...More...
• Wikipedia Description: Newseum
  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
  The Newseum is an interactive museum of news and journalism under construction in Washington, D.C. It opened at its first location in Rosslyn, Virginia, on April 18, 1997. Its stated mission is "to help the public and the news media understand one another better." In five years, the Newseum attracted more than 2.25 million visitors. The Newseum's operations are funded by the Freedom Forum, a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to "free press, free speech and free spirit for all people."
  
  In 2000, Freedom Forum decided to move the Newseum across the Potomac River to Washington, D.C. The original Newseum was closed on March 3, 2002, in order to allow its staff to concentrate on building the new, larger museum. The new museum, built at a cost of $450 million, will open its doors to the public on April 11, 2008.
  
  After obtaining a landmark location at Pennsylvania Avenue and Sixth Street NW, the Newseum board selected noted exhibit designer Ralph Appelbaum, who had designed the original Newseum in Arlington, Virginia, and architect James Stewart Polshek, who designed the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, to work on the new project.
  
  This design team had the following goals:
  
  * To design a building that would be an architectural icon, easily recognized and remembered by visitors from around the world;
  * To create a museum space three times as large as the original, with the capacity for more than two million visitors a year; and
  * To celebrate the First Amendment to the United States Constitution — in particular, its freedom of the press and free speech protections.
  
  Highlights of the building design unveiled October 2002 include a façade featuring a "window on the world", 57 ft × 78 ft (17 m × 24 m), which looks out on Pennsylvania Avenue and the National Mall while letting the public see inside to the visitors and displays. It also features t ...More...
• Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
  2. NEWS_100131_09.JPG: This is where the new Elvis Presley exhibit is going.
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