Champollion Museum (Vif)
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The Champollion Museum (French: Musée Champollion) is a French historical museum located in Vif in the family home of the Champollion brothers.[1] It presents the daily life of the discoverer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and that of his brother Jacques Joseph while they lived in Grenoble.[2]
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The museum opened temporarily in 2004 during the ninth International Conference of Egyptology in Grenoble. It was then closed for renovation. It reopened on June 5, 2021.[3] In February 2020, the museum was named a Musée de France by the Minister of Culture.[4]
The Louvre stores 85 Egyptian objects in this museum.
Gallery
- Zoé and her husband Jacques-Joseph Champollion.
- Bust of Jean-François Champollion.
- statuette of an Egyptian god.
- Samples of Egyptian objects from the first Egyptian museum of the Louvre (Museum Charles X in 1827).
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