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Anybody seen the Dead Sea Scroll exhibit sponsored by the Israel Antiquities Authority that is currently traveling the museum circuit?

I saw it. It was arranged for a limited number of museums, and one of those cancelled (supposedly due to terrorist threats; I won't record here what I really think happened) so the local museum (Grand Rapids Michigan) picked it up. The exhibition would be worth seeing if one is also going to see the rest of a major museum. IOW, it was kind of a dud. There were a dozen or so scroll fragments (literally fragments; it's fortunate that any of them survived) with a description of each one. That could easy be seen in 30 minutes, if that much time would be needed.

There were also various items (of course, attributed to the Essenes), like broken sandals, pottery, hair I think... it was nice to see the exhibition, but had I known how unimpressed I was going to be, I'd have paid the $15 to see it once, instead of joining the museum for the discount under the mistaken idea that I'd want to see it a number of times. Oh well. Had a craniorectosis attack.

From what I have read, deciphering these scrolls was quite a cryptological effort.

For a layman like you or me, most of what has been uncovered, aside fro the actual site itself, would not mean much without extensive narrative and explanation.

I went also. Tiny, tiny fragments..most were totally black. ho hum. In Dallas they had a Bible display of old Bibles to the present. THAT was much more interesting, IMO.