Newseum Makes Headlines with "Up-to-the-Second" Infotainment, Terrible Name

Do you know of a cultural institution with a worse name than that of the Newseum, the 250,000-square-foot “museum of news” set to open Friday in Our Nation’s Capital? (If so, drop us a line at unbeige AT mediabistro.com, we’ve launched a formal study.) The Newseum, which utterly mocks your inability to correctly pronounce its name on the first try, is housed on the first seven floors of a building designed by Polshek Partnership Architects that is also home to a sprawling Wolfgang Puck restaurant (newsily named “The Source”), a conference center, and 140,000 square feet of residential apartments that are probably out of most journalists’ price range.

The museum itself features exhibits designed by Ralph Appelbaum Associates.

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