Champollion Museum (Vif)

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The Champollion Museum.

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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  1. ^ (fr) rfi.fr
  2. ^ (fr) www.newspress.fr
  3. ^ (fr) actu.fr

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Coordinates: 45°03′14″N 5°40′09″E / 45.05389°N 5.66917°E / 45.05389; 5.66917

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