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]
The museum opened in 2004 during the 9th international conference of Egyptology in Grenoble, then is closed for renovation. It opens its doors on June 5, 2021.[3]
The Louvre stores 85 Egyptian objects in this museum.
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Zoé and his husband Jacques-Joseph Champollion.
Bust of Jean-François Champollion.
statuette of a Egyptian god.
Samples of Egyptian objects from the first Egyptian museum of the Louvre (Museum Charles X in 1827).
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