We're going to have to broker our information in a way that perhaps is more subtle. 'It says finally that you better bring your asbestos clothes when you go to do an exhibit. 'It's not a teaching institution per se, which is what some wanted it to be maybe four or five years ago. Opponents say that a public museum isn't the place for such an emotional presentation.
Gone were references to the debate over dropping the first atomic bomb, or to the damage it wrought.
After protests from veterans and lawmakers over what they considered a pro-Japanese viewpoint, the Smithsonian Institution scaled back its exhibit of the plane, the 'Enola Gay,' that bombed Hiroshima. If there is an intellectual chill in the air at public museums, it may have begun in Washington last January. From slavery to Freud to the atomic bomb, potentially offensive exhibits were scaled back, delayed or scrapped. WASHINGTON (CNN) - 1995 was not a very good year for anyone hoping to mount a controversial exhibit at a public museum in the United States.
CNN - Controversial exhibits held in check - Dec.
