Musée du Président François Mitterrand, Presidential gift museum in Château-Chinon, France.

The Musée du Président François Mitterrand displays official gifts given to President Mitterrand during his two terms in office, including ceramics, glassware, silverware, drawings, paintings, and tapestries. The collection spans works from different countries and artistic traditions.

François Mitterrand, elected deputy for the Nièvre in 1946 and mayor of Château-Chinon from 1959 to 1981, saw the museum created in 1986 during his first presidential term. It was installed in the 18th-century Sainte-Claire convent at the foot of the Calvaire hill. After his 1988 reelection, a second building linked by an underground room was added for gifts from the second term, though the name stayed singular.

The name Septennat refers to the seven-year presidential term then in force. The gifts come from heads of state and diplomats, French public bodies and private individuals, and range from archaeological pieces and ceramics to silverware, tapestries and medals. Photographs of Mitterrand's official travels and ceremonies are shown alongside them.

The museum closed in September 2019 for major modernization work that also affects the neighbouring Musée du Costume. Both are to be merged into a new museum complex called the Cité des Présents, whose reopening was postponed first to spring 2025 because of mould and then to 10 May 2026. Check access before travelling.

The museum's two thefts, in December 2015 and January 2017, each caused losses estimated in the tens of thousands of euros. The objects on show were all donated by Mitterrand himself to the Nièvre departmental council, which owns the collection.