Like similar displays in Japan's own war museums, the Smithsonian exhibit seems oddly suspended in a historical vacuum, long on hardware and short on explanations.

Prosthetics now include much more than artificial limbs, as evidenced by a plastic skeleton named Yorick on display in the Smithsonian exhibit.

But Katherine Ott, a curator of the Smithsonian exhibit, said a functioning prosthetic eye still seems far off in a cyborgian future.

The Smithsonian exhibit contains about 70 black-and-white photos taken over the years by the institution's photographers.

The Smithsonian exhibit will still open on Friday, though in a much different version than what had been scheduled.

From November 18 through December 29, 2012, the library hosted its second traveling Smithsonian exhibit, "Journey Stories."

He escorted a very pretty young woman, one of the assistants in his office, to an Italian embassy function, then to a Smithsonian exhibit.

An estimated 680,000 visitors came to the Smithsonian exhibit during its six-month display period.

In 1996, the Bowman Museum hosted a Smithsonian traveling exhibit called Barn Again.

That was the first time a traveling Smithsonian exhibit was shown in central Oregon.