Foundation Gives $15-Million to Newseum
May 9, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
As the redesigned Newseum — a museum dedicated to the news industry — prepares for its fall opening in Washington, it announced a $15-million gift this week from the Annenberg Foundation to pay for a theater, reports The Washington Post.
The theater in the $435-million museum will be named for Walter H. Annenberg, the late Philadelphia publisher, and his wife, Leonore, the Post reports.
The new Newseum, which replaces its Northern Virginia predecessor, has a prominent address between the Capitol and the White House.
Among the high-profile artifacts on display will be the pencil used by a reporter killed at Little Bighorn in 1876 and the laptop that the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl used before his murder in Pakistan in 2002, reports The New York Times.
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