Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian

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Twentieth Century Fox “had really faithful re-creations of aircraft and spacecraft,” she says. But don’t look for the movie version of Amelia Earhart’s airplane (shown here) to enter the collection.

The Smithsonian’s Hollywood Moment

The makers of Night at the Museum took great pains to get it right.

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Earhart poses in a Pitcairn PCA-2 Autogiro in 1931.

Think You Know Amelia?

Wilbur Wright at the controls of the 1903 Wright Flyer, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, December 14, 1903.

The 1903 Wright Flyer

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The Original

Earhart first crossed the Atlantic in 1928, as a passenger. Four years later, she flew solo from Newfoundland to Ireland in a Lockheed Vega. Here, the beaming villagers of Culmore, North Ireland, pay homage to the rising star.

Amelia Earhart, American Idol

Passenger Thomas Selfridge (left) and Orville Wright prepare to take off at Fort Myer, Virginia on September 17, 1908. They crashed soon after, and Selfridge became the first air fatality.

Under the Hood of a Wright Flyer

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I Have Today Seen Wilbur Wright and his Great White Bird