king tut exhibit

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my birthday was last week and as a present, my boyfriend took me to the king tut exhibit at the discovery center in times square. we got discounted tickets through groupon.com, which reduced the ticket price down from $30 to $18.

we went on a tuesday, so it was slower and less crowded than it probably would have been. we only had to wait a few minutes to exchange our vouchers into tickets and then were admitted right away. there was a short 90 second intro video and then we were let loose in the exhibit.

the exhibit started out with a number of artifacts from king tut's many relatives. near the end of the exhibit, we finally saw some of the many wonders from his tomb. it had about 150 artifacts total with nice descriptions about them. the advertisements are slightly misleading since the exhibit did NOT have king tut's mummy or tomb features in all the advertisements. there were some absolutely beautiful artifacts, but not his (i.e. one of father's wives' relative's tomb). we did enjoy the documentary videos at the end of the how they finally determined king tut's paternity.

we both agreed that we were happy we did not pay full price since it was somewhat limited in its artifacts, but we were happy that we went for the price we paid. it was not crowded, which was also great. if it had been more crowded, that might have changed our opinion more...

time in museum: 1 1/2 hrs
times visited: 1
overall: B

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