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 ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical History (derived ) is the systematic study and th ...

located in

Sarran Sarran (; oc, Serran) 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 279 Commu ...

, in the French departement of

Corrèze Corrèze (; oc, Corresa) is a department 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 regio ...

, in the

Massif central The (; oc, Massís Central, ; literally ''"Central Massif"'') is a highland region in south-central France, consisting of mountains and plateaus. It covers about 15% of mainland France. Subject to volcanism that has subsided in the last 10,00 ...

, 30 km northeast of the city of

Tulle Tulle (; ) is a commune in central France. It is the third-largest town in the former region of Limousin and is the capital of the department of Corrèze, in the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Tulle is also the episcopal see of the Roman Cat ...

. 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. Chirac was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988, as well as ...

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 (born 1948 in Soissons) is a French architect. Biography Jean-Michel Wilmotte studied interior design at the Camondo school of interior design in Paris. Just two years after graduating, he founded his own agency in Paris in ...

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Sources

* Translation of the French Wikipedia article

External links

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Official museum website
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