I got an insider's tour yesterday of the newest museum in Washington, D.C., the soon-to-open Newseum -- a comprehensive museum of news right on Pennsylvania Avenue in the heart of downtown (it's pictured at left). Of course, I'm biased because a) I'm a journalist and b) I have friends and former colleagues who work there. But I must say it's an impressive place -- or it will be when it opens to the public on April 11. Galleries and exhibits are not yet in place, but I did get to see the piece of the fallen Berlin Wall that is part of the permanent collection, as well as a piece of the fallen World Trade Center towers. And a memorial to journalists killed in the course of reporting news, dating back to 1837, is moving even though still incomplete.

George Stephanopoulos will broadcast his Sunday ABC talk show This Week with George Stephanopoulos from his new studio in the Newseum and celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck has opened The Source, an airy, modern, very California-looking restaurant in the building. The man who masterminds the menu for the Academy Awards Governor's Ball also is the official caterer for events at the Newseum. If you want a sneak peek at the place yourself, click here.

(photo by Maria Bryk/Newseum)