Newseum tickets: $20

[buckweaver]

http://tinyurl.com/yrc4eh

WASHINGTON - The new $450-million home of a journalism museum called the Newseum will open April 11, allowing it to lure in some of the thousands of tourists who will be in the U.S. capital for the famed cherry blossoms, officials said Thursday.

Admission will be free on opening day; after that, it will cost $20 for adults, making the Newseum the latest in a series of pricey new museums competing with many free attractions in the capital.

The previous incarnation of the Newseum, which was in Arlington, Va., and closed in 2002, was free. Officials at its parent organization, the Freedom Forum, decided to build a larger centre closer to the Smithsonian museums on the National Mall.

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The new building on Pennsylvania Avenue has 23,225 square metres of exhibit space, 15 theatres, 14 major galleries and two broadcast studios. There are interactive kiosks where visitors can put themselves in various journalism roles - photographer, editor, reporter or anchor.

You've got to be ****ting me.

I {heart} journalism, and I {double-heart} museums ... but no way in hell am I paying $20 to go to the ****ing Newseum.

But hey, maybe they'll give me a discount to sit at the copy editor "kiosk" and explain what it's like to be a desker. That's worth the price of admission all by itself!

 

[BYH]

Given the distaste most unintelligent red-blooded Americans have for the media and our role in ****ing everything up, there's no ****ing way that will succeed.

 

[mike311gd]

But hey, maybe they'll give me a discount to sit at the copy editor "kiosk" and explain what it's like to be a desker. That's worth the price of admission all by itself!

And you'll probably hear, "So what do you cover?" about 320 times a day. Right before all those disappointed children walk away and call you a loser under their breaths.

 

[Write-brained]

And they ****ing wonder why newspapers are going extinct: Let's build a museum that costs $20 a ticket in a city full of free ****ing museums.

They shoulda built the damn thing in Tahoe.

 

[buckweaver]

Admission prices for other noted museums:

• Guggenheim, New York, $18
• Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, $16.50
• Sixth Floor Museum, Dealey Plaza, $13.50
• Hockey Hall of Fame, Centre of the Universe, $13
• The Art Institute of Chicago, $12
• Getty Center, Los Angeles, free (with $8 parking)
• Smithsonian, Washington, free
• U.S. Holocaust Memorial, Washington, free
  
  
• Gatorland, Orlando, Fla., $19.99

 

[ArnoldBabar]

They should also make all the exhibits available for free online before the museum opens. That would drive up revenues.

 

[BYH]

They should also make all the exhibits available for free online before the museum opens. That would drive up revenues.

Brilliant.

 

[mike311gd]

Admission prices for other noted museums:

• Guggenheim, New York, $18
• Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, $16.50
• Sixth Floor Museum, Dealey Plaza, $13.50
• Hockey Hall of Fame, Centre of the Universe, $13
• The Art Institute of Chicago, $12
• Getty Center, Los Angeles, free (with $8 parking)
• Smithsonian, Washington, free
• U.S. Holocaust Memorial, Washington, free
  
  
• Gatorland, Orlando, Fla., $19.99

I paid $16 for the Spy Museum in D.C. That money was not well-spent.

 

[BYH]

Interesting. My wife went to the spy museum when she accompanied her class on a trip to DC last year and loved it.

 

[mike311gd]

I'm not real big on that stuff. My friend, the history teach, would probably still be there if we didn't pull him away.

 

[Cape_Fear]

So some of the exhibits will be computers that crash on deadline with cursing editors in the background?

 

[Diabeetus]

They should also make all the exhibits available for free online before the museum opens. That would drive up revenues.

Brilliant.

Wanted to second that. Excellent work.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Figuring a dollar per percentage point, I guess the Newseum's profit margin goal is 20 percent. This makes them just like newspapers.

 

[joe]

National Gallery of Art in D.C., also free.
The Mall and Wall in D.C., also free.

 

[shotglass]

They should also make all the exhibits available for free online before the museum opens. That would drive up revenues.

Brilliant.

Wanted to second that. Excellent work.

Thirded. Outstanding.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

It won't be complete without a diorama of Bob Novak butting into the front of an airport checkin line, while cursing out everyone within earshot.

 

[dreunc1542]

The British Museum - free
The Louvre - $12 (as of last year)

But yea, I'm going to pay $20 for this one.

 

[ondeadline]

I loved the Newseum when I visited it's previous location, but I can't see paying $80 to take my family to the new location.

 

[playthrough]

No surprise. The Newseum has Gannett fingerprints all over it.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

They should also make all the exhibits available for free online before the museum opens. That would drive up revenues.

Brilliant.

Wanted to second that. Excellent work.

Thirded. Outstanding.

Aw, shucks.