Museums use their displays to tell a story.  However, sometimes the truth of the story can become distorted if the facts are not properly told.  An “official” story is circulated instead of the truth.  One such example was the Enola Gay exhibit in the National Air and Space Museum.  This exhibit displayed the plane used to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.  One concept document stated that it would include pictures of the victims, as well as videos interviewing both survivors and crew.  One of the main themes would be “the increasing bitterness and brutality of a war that was also, for Americans, a war of vengeance for Pearl Harbor.”  Because the museum took that point of view on the attacks, its bias would come out in the display and thus influence the opinion of the museum visitors as well.  As it said in the Lavine and Karp article, “Every museum exhibition, whatever its overt subject, inevitably draws on the cultural assumptions and resources of the people who make it.  Decisions are made to emphasize one element and to downplay others, to assert some truths and to ignore others.”  When viewing a museum display, we must be careful not to be misled by the official stories and to instead seek out the truth.