Newseum Closing

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(10-04-2019 02:20 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-new...180973274/

First, I was surprised to see that the Newseum is located along the Potomac River! All these years, I thought it was located on Pennsylvania Avenue at 6th Street with the Potomac a good distance away.

Second, how they found visitors willing to pay the very high admission prices, which kept rising upwards over the years to the current $25/person is beyond me. You would not believe how many of the local folks here in Clinton do not want to pay the adult price of $5 to take the tour at Surratt House -- and we're less than 15 miles from the Newseum. DC must get a lot of rich visitors... or, its founding fathers are so rich that they didn't/don't understand the plight of average people who visit the nation's capital.

Third, the museum is huge, and to really take in $25 worth of history takes hours and hours. Most people just collapse from "too much information" after awhile.