Up to 80 newspaper front pages from the United States and around the world went on display each day in the Newseum's Today's Front Pages Gallery. The museum was devoted to news, journalism and the five freedoms protected by the First Amendment. Founded by publisher Al Neuharth and run by the Freedom Forum, it was based in Rosslyn, Virginia, from 1997 to 2002 and reopened at 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., in 2008.
The Washington building held seven levels of exhibition space. At its opening it had 14 galleries, 15 theaters, two broadcast studios and more than 130 interactive stations. Exhibits traced news media from early printing to digital journalism and covered the Berlin Wall, the September 11 attacks, Pulitzer Prize-winning photography and press freedom worldwide. It drew more than 850,000 visitors in 2017.
After years of financial losses, the Newseum closed permanently on December 31, 2019. Its building now houses the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center. Its First Amendment tablet stands at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, and the Freedom Forum keeps the permanent collection.
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