(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A museum in the nation’s capital dedicated to the First Amendment is closing at the end of the year after operating for more than a decade.
The Newseum in Washington D.C. made the announcement Tuesday, citing financial troubles.
“Continuing to operate in our current location has proven unsustainable,” the facility said in a news release posted on its website.
The 250,000-square-foot museum property on Pennsylvania Avenue has been sold to Johns Hopkins University.
Opened in 2008, the Newseum's mission has been to "increase public understanding of the importance of a free press and the First Amendment," the not-for-profit says on its website.
"Visitors experience the story of news, the role of a free press in major events in history, and how the core freedoms of the First Amendment — religion, speech, press, assembly and petition — apply to their lives."