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
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery City Museums & Gallery, which was founded in 1951, at the time. Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery closed its building at the start of September 2016 for major redevelopment. It is planned to re-open in spring 2020 as The Box, Plymouth which will encompass the Museum and Art Gallery, former Central Library and St Luke's Church buildings with a major new extension designed by Atkins. It will bring collections from the museum, Plymouth and West Devon Record Office, South West Film and Television Archive, South West Image Bank and the Local Studies and Reference collection from the Central Library