An exhibit so big they're building museum around it

[Mind_your_head]

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The building is far from finished, but Newseum curators installed their first artifact Wednesday -- an item so big they'll put up the rest of the museum around it.

The world's first news satellite truck was gingerly lowered by a crane into what will be the new home of the museum dedicated to journalism and the First Amendment.

The truck will eventually be in one of the first exhibits Newseum visitors will see, along with a CNN video satellite phone and a pre-Civil War photo wagon that allowed photographers to develop pictures in the field, Christoffersen said.

The First Amendment will be etched in stone at the entrance. The Newseum's central theater is expected to be a four-dimensional experience that will have vibrating seats to enhance films including the story of Edward R. Murrow's legendary CBS radio reports from a London rooftop during the Battle of Britain.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/03/16/newseum.ap/index.html

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Forget seeing the first news satellite truck, there's going to be lines out the door to try out those vibrating seats! ;-)

[XNASA]

1. Feh. That's not so big.

http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/U505/exhibit/a_restoration/index.html

[LiberalEsto]

2. I thought this was about Al Neuharth's ego! nt

[enid602]

3. irnoy

How ironic that they're building a news museum just in time to witness the death of the freedom of the press.

[lukasahero]

4. Ding ding ding

That's pretty much what I thought.

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. No irony at all.

Museums is where you put dead things on display.