Champollion_Museum_(Vif)

Champollion Museum (Vif)

Champollion Museum (Vif)

Add article description


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 Champollion Museum.

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.


References

  1. "Isère. Le musée Champollion à Vif ouvrira ses portes au public le lundi 5 juin". actu.fr (in French). Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  2. "Champollion Museum in Vif becomes Museum of France". www.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2022-05-12.

45°03′14″N 5°40′09″E



Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Champollion_Museum_(Vif), and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.