Johns Hopkins to buy Newseum building in D.C. as journalism museum plans to relocate

The $372.5 million deal will give the university a prime Pennsylvania Avenue address for graduate programs.

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January 25, 2019 at 5:30 p.m. EST

An exterior view of the Newseum building in 2008 on Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington. (Jonathan Ernst for The Washington Post)

A major museum on Pennsylvania Avenue will close within a year and make way for the opening of a prominent university center for graduate studies under a real estate deal announced Friday that is destined to transform a marquee address in the nation’s capital.

Johns Hopkins University is buying the landmark building that houses the Newseum for $372.5 million, a purchase that will enable the struggling cultural institution devoted to news and the First Amendment to seek a new home in the Washington area.