Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center (Washington, D.C.)

 interesting place, 2008_construction, 2000s construction

555 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20001

The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington D.C. was formerly the Newseum--a 250,000-square-foot museum of news by the Freedom Forum organization designed c. 2008 by James Polshek of the Polshek Partnership (now Ennead Architects) with an interior by Ralph Appelbaum Associates--offered visitors an experience that blended five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits. The exterior's unique architectural features include a 74-foot-high marble engraving of the First Amendment and an immense front wall of glass through which passers-by watched the museum fulfill its mission of providing a forum where the media and the public can gain a better understanding of each other.

In 2019, the building was purchased by Johns Hopkins University $372.5mil for its graduate school programs. The museum closed its doors on January 1, 2020. Its collections will be deinstalled and brought to an offsite archives facility for safekeeping. Johns Hopkins' renovation entailed a new interior by the Rockwell Group.

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publicinnovation.jhu.edu/
www.architectureweek.com/2008/0903/design_1-2.html
www.npr.org/2019/01/25/688713398/newseums-imposing-d-c-...
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/arts/design/00johns-hopkins-...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newseum