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
Museum of the Slovak Village Museum of the Slovak Village The large open-air Museum of the Slovak Village (in Slovak: "Múzeum slovenskej dediny") is situated on the outskirts of the northern city of Martin in Slovakia. The first idea of the open-air museum was put forward by Ján Geryk, the SNM secretary, on 16th April 1931 and it was thought to be built in Opleta. The museum was planned around Scandinavian designs of open-air museums and was mentioned to be real-life place for whole families: they would live and work there "in the old way of life". Finally, the museum was established in the 1961,