1995 Enola Gay exhibition controversy at the National Air and Space Museum

A planned 1995 exhibit about the Enola Gay at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum prompted a heated public and scholarly debate over how to present the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The controversy led to substantial revisions of the exhibit, widespread media attention, and administrative changes at the museum; it became a widely noted case study in museum curation and public history. The episode is part of local lore about the Smithsonian's role in national memory and contested history.