The greatest news team ever assembled. (Paramount Pictures)

Editor’s note: Imagine this article is being read to you in the stately voice of Bill Kurtis.

There was a time when the Newseum was a monument to media baronetcy. Self-funded exhibits featuring plaudits for News Corporation and NBC, as read to you by the employees of News Corporation and NBC, and such. Oh, sure, there are the occasional fascinating exhibits, such as archival photos of the life and death of John F. Kennedy, but its true purpose is to be simply a gleaming monument to how much the media love ourselves.

And who better to add to that panoply than the news team from San Diego’s KVWN-TV.

Yes, that’s right. Ron Burgundy is going on display at the Newseum when “Anchorman: The Exhibit” opens on Nov. 14. Among the artifacts from the 2004 film broadcast journalism bible Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy will be the velour-heavy wardrobe that clothed the Channel 4 Evening News Team, Burgundy’s jazz flute, and the KVWN news desk, which Newseum visitors will be able to sit behind. Oh, and it will also contain some of the devices wielded in the greatest media squabble of all time.

“For millions of viewers, the news anchor represents the authority and credibility of television news. But anchormen and women also are popular targets for pop culture laughs,” Cathy Trost, the Newseum’s vice president of exhibits, said in a press release.

Anchorman will also be folded into the Newseum’s longstanding “Be a TV Reporter” exhibit with a new introduction recorded by Will Ferrell, in character as Burgundy. Clips of the Burgundy character will also appear throughout the rest of the Anchorman display. The famously tempestuous fictional newsman will, quite literally, be trapped in a glass case of emotion.

Of course, it’s all very well timed. The long-awaited sequel to Anchorman, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, arrives in movie theaters on Dec. 20.