I went with a friend and our 4 kids last week. There was no problem with crowds and there was plenty of time to look around at all the (replica) exhibits. The kids found it interesting even though they were a bit young to understand the whole experience (4.5yrs and younger). They enjoyed looking at the "treasure" and "mummy" and other pictures of nile animals and other egyptian monuments....

As a grown up I have to admit to being rather disappointed at the exhibition. I can't fault the quality of the artifacts of display or the fact that you can get much closer to them that you would the real thing... I was just left with a feeling of "with all those interesting things to display could they not have been a bit more imaginative with the presentation".

It starts off quite positively with a short movie (in German) about Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon and the discovery of the tomb but then you move on to the exhibition proper. The first two exhibits are set up as "tomb views" but in reality were a flat presentation of stacked artifacts on a timed illuminated display so by the time we got close enough to see anything the lights went out and everything was plunged into darkness!

After these displays the rest of the items are just displayed in the usual museum fashion with only very basic written explanation (German and English) of the items or their significance.

There is a translated guided tour available which I guess would have enhanced the experience, but it was not terribly clear how much extra it cost and was not something we were going to attempt with 4 kids in tow. There was no guide or leaflet to take with you as you went around like other exhibitions I have been to which I also felt was quite poor.

All in all, with slow kids in tow we made it through in just under an hour and that was including long pauses to discuss in gory detail the mummification process and how they made the pyramids without bob the builder and his friends

That said we had a nice time and it beat hanging out at the park on a cold rainy day, but if you have been to Egypt and have more than the most basic knowledge of Egyptian history you may come out feeling a bit cheated.