Newseum Newseum in Arlington, Virginia, in 1997. Prior to opening in Virginia, it maintained exhibition galleries in Nashville and Manhattan, the latter in the lobby of the former IBM Building at 580 Madison Avenue. In 2000, Freedom Forum decided to move the museum across the Potomac River to downtown Washington, D.C. The original site 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. Tim Russert, a Newseum trustee, said, "The Newseum made
Open Museum Open Museum Open Museum is a participatory exhibit space for fine artists, art museums, and art enthusiasts. Also a not-for-profit digital outreach tool for artists and museums, its purpose is to help make the arts more accessible to everyone and support museums in engaging people around their collections. Visitors can explore Open Museum through Objects, Museums, or People. Open Museum also offers educational and inspirational games for art and museum lovers, such as The Association Game (t.a.g.), which everyone is welcome to watch, but only members can participate in. Open Museum is a kind of “Facebook meets Blogger and Flickr