The musée du Président Jacques Chirac (''President Jacques Chirac museum''), commonly known as musée du Septennat,''Septennat'' means in French a seven-year period, which was the French presidential term from 1873 until 2002. The name ''musée du Septennat'' is also used for the President François Mitterrand Museum in Château-Chinon, in the departement of the Nièvre, is a

museum A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private colle ...

located in

Sarran Sarran (; ) is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France. It is the home of the Jacques Chirac presidential museum. Population See also *Communes of the Corrèze department The following is a list of the 277 communes of ...

, in the French departement of

Corrèze Corrèze (; ) is a département in France, named after the river Corrèze which runs through it. Although its prefecture is Tulle, its most populated city is Brive-la-Gaillarde. Corrèze is located in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, on the bo ...

, in the Massif central, 30 km northeast of the city of

Tulle Tulle (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in central France. It is the third-largest town in the former region of Limousin and is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Corrèze, in the Regions of France, region of Nouvelle- ...

. It houses the collection of objects offered to

Jacques Chirac Jacques René Chirac (, ; ; 29 November 193226 September 2019) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. He was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and 1986 to 1988, as well as Mayor of Pari ...

during his presidency, a library, as well as a space for temporary exhibitions. It was opened on December 15, 2000 by Chirac. The building was designed by

Jean-Michel Wilmotte Jean-Michel Wilmotte is a French architect. Biography Jean-Michel Wilmotte was born in Soissons on 2 April 1948 to Robert Wilmotte (pharmacist) and Suzanne Léonard. He attended secondary school at the Soisson ''lycée'' and the Jean-de-La-Fo ...

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Sources

* Translation of the French Wikipedia article

External links

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Official museum website
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