This exhibition is billed as a Once in a Lifetime experience, well I felt a bit cheated as we actually saw very little of the treasures from the tomb of the boy pharoah. Ok there were a few staffs, a canopic jar, a couple of sticks of furniture and some shabtis, but nothing like the magnificent stuff that came over before and certainly not the death mask that is being used to sell the event to the public.
As far as the exhibition experience goes there are rather too many queues and the information is pitched fairly low (I mean come on, we have already seen this discovery of the tomb stuff in countless documentaries), which I guess is what you get when history is packaged as entertainment. You would learn far more from a trip to the British Museum and it won't cost you £20 a go.
The gift shop is a bit rubbish too.












