Champollion Museum (Vif)

The Champollion Museum (French: Musée Champollion) is a French historical museum located in Vif in the family home of the Champollion brothers.[1]

Not to be confused with Champollion Museum.
The Champollion Museum.

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.

  • 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).

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

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