The Champollion Museum (french: Musée Champollion) is a French historical museum located in Vif in the family home of the Champollion brothers. It presents the daily life of the discoverer of

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and that of his brother Jacques Joseph while they lived in

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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. In February 2020, the museum was named a

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by the

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. The

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stores 85 Egyptian objects in this museum.

Gallery

File:Zoé Berriat et Jacques-Joseph Champollion.jpg, Zoé and her husband Jacques-Joseph Champollion. File:Buste de Jean-François Champollion.jpg, Bust of Jean-François Champollion. File:Statue - Musée Champollion.jpg, statuette of an Egyptian god. File:Échantillons du musée Charles X - Musée Champollion.jpg, Samples of Egyptian objects from the first Egyptian museum of the Louvre (Museum Charles X in 1827).

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