See Highlights Continued . See The Object at Hand , September 1996. How Things Fly New permanent gallery elucidates the basic principles of flight. Exhibition features the forward fuselage of the Enola Gay , the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Display features meteorite from Mars containing microscopic structures and traces of organic compounds, suggesting life once existed on the red planet.
Permanent exhibition looks at the work of Smithsonian biologists worldwide.
The stories behind the first stamp to picture an airplane and the first Christmas stamp. Show features artist's sculpture Cylinder Decorated with the Figure of Hina and Two Attendants . Recent works by the well-known contemporary ceramist from Kenya. Exhibition surveys photography's role in documenting immigration. Artifacts from the National Museum of the American Indian.