 Enola Gay became the center of a controversy at the Smithsonian Institution when the museum planned to put its fuselage on public display in 1995 as part of an exhibit commemorating the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima . The exhibit , The Crossroads : The End of World War II , the Atomic Bomb and the Cold War , was drafted by the Smithsonian 's National Air and Space Museum staff , and arranged around the restored Enola Gay . 
