Musée Champollion – Les Écritures du Monde (World Writing)

Behind the “facade of a thousand letters”, the museum sheds light on the work of Champollion and how, through his passionate research, he cracked the mystery of Egyptian writing. By including the works of this famous code-breaker within the history of world writing, the collections are for the most part, one-of-a-kind. From Mexico to China passing through the Mediterranean, the objects inscribed with a brush, a quill, or a feather, demonstrate how these texts appeared, spread and evolved throughout the ages.
Today it is hard to imagine how these signs, scratched into stones or sand could mimic speech and allow us to communicate with each other.

Completely renovated, the former Egyptian Museum has been transformed into a modern and thoroughly original space, the only museum in Europe dedicated to the history of world writing.
The Champollion Museum has attained the label “Maison des Illustres”.