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The tablets are real, although I wouldn't put it past the later church leadership to steal indigenous artifacts to cover for the lie though. But we know that Smith loved looting indigenous graves during the trail of tears so it does make sense for him to find them. They show pictures of the tablets at their museums. I think they want to avoid the discussion of what the plates actually are, so they keep it low key. It's obviously not hieroglyphics, seeing the tablets only makes it less believable if you're already in on the grift. If you see them as an outsider, it's obvious bullshit.
The tablets are not real. You are thinking of the book of Abraham, which was "translated" from an Egyptian funeral scroll. A lot of the rest of your info is wrong, too. (I'm an exmormon of more than 15 years, served a mission, went to byu)
I live in one of the Mormon centers outside of Utah. I can't go into detail without doxxing myself, but if you're Mormon, all I can say is that fucking tree. In the museums around here that the Mormons own, they show tablets but they don't have Hieroglyphics on it. Whether or not JS used those tablets is up for debate, but modern sects of Mormonism claim indigenous artifacts as the tablets.
The church does not claim to have the tablets that contained the book of Mormon. They were taken from Smith by Moroni once the translation was done.