In which museum is the Rosetta Stone currently displayed?

The Rosetta Stone is currently displayed in the British Museum.

The object is a fragment of a granodiorite stela inscribed in 196 BC with a decree honoring Ptolemy V. The same text appears in Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic, and Ancient Greek, allowing scholars to compare the scripts and eventually decipher hieroglyphic writing.

French soldiers found the stone near Rashid, or Rosetta, in the Nile Delta in 1799 during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign. After the French defeat, it passed into British possession under the 1801 Treaty of Alexandria and reached the British Museum in 1802. It has remained one of the institution's best-known objects, apart from a wartime relocation for protection.

The museum displays the original in Room 4, the Egyptian sculpture gallery. A replica is available elsewhere in the museum, which can cause confusion in visitor guides. The stone did not contain a secret code; its importance came from presenting one official decree in three writing systems.