"The Great Wave," from the final half of Hokusai's career, is prominently displayed in the exhibition's introductory gallery, which briefly encapsulates his range of mediums.

Suspended on a steel rod in the introductory gallery is a 550-pound German bomb.

In the an introductory first gallery, six tanks are filled with fish which are changed each season.

This introductory gallery, designed to lay out the basics of Egyptian civilization, provides a wonderful summation.

Fairfield grew as the place to live as Bridgeport expanded its industrial base, becoming the country's pre-eminent manufacturer of armaments during World War I. Beyond a small introductory gallery, the exhibition is arranged in two galleries.

The hall's introductory gallery sets the stage for visitors with a multimedia presentation narrated by James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader and Verizon (one of the museum's benefactors).

The show begins with an introductory gallery that touches on 19th-century experimental colonies in the northeastern United States, like Fruitlands of Harvard, Mass., a short-lived transcendentalist community founded by Bronson Alcott and others.

After the introductory gallery comes theater, the realm of extravagant movement, exaggerations of scale, flickering lights and shadows.

The heart of the new installation is an introductory gallery that provides a wonderful summation, with a survey of sculptural styles and displays of weapons, pottery, cosmetics, jewelry, furniture and funerary arts.

This may be why the introductory gallery does not include video from, say, the History Channel, pointing out how diverse Latin American cultures were combined into an idea of Latino culture in the United States.