Grand séminaire d'Annecy, Cultural center and historical monument in Annecy, France.

The Grand Séminaire d'Annecy is a late-17th-century building with a pale peach-pink rendered facade, rectangular white-framed windows in regular rows and a shallow roof; it is L-shaped in plan with a projecting wing on the left. A central stone entrance with a dark wooden double door and three flagpoles sits at the base of the main facade, and a stone wall at the right bears the inscription "CONSERVATOIRE D'ART".

The Grand Séminaire d'Annecy was founded by Bishop Jean d'Arenthon d'Alex, prince-bishop of Geneva; construction ran from 1684 to 1688. In 1715 King Victor Amadeus II lodged here during his visit to Annecy. Confiscated as national property in 1792, it served as a hospital, then regained its religious role from 1815 until 1973, when the Haute-Savoie departmental council bought it to house the departmental archives.

The Conservatoire d'Art et d'Histoire, housed here since 1977, holds engravings, lithographs, paintings and drawings, including the collections of Paul Payot, Évariste Jonchère and Pierre-Louis-Aimé Chastel, plus contemporary works by local artists. The site also hosts the cultural services of the Haute-Savoie departmental council, the Cité de l'image en mouvement, a branch of the École des Gobelins and a rehearsal room for the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie.

The building stands on the west bank of the Thiou in Annecy, a short walk from the old town. The Conservatoire d'Art et d'Histoire occupies the former seminary; the stone wall at the right of the entrance reads "CONSERVATOIRE D'ART". The entrance is the central stone doorway with a dark wooden double door beneath three flagpoles.

Among the seminarians listed for the Grand Séminaire is Jean-Jacques Rousseau, recorded simply as a student; the sources give no date for his time there. The same lists name François-Régis Clet (1748–1820), a blessed missionary killed in China, as a teacher, and Léon-Albert Terrier, later a politician, as a pupil from 1911 to 1913 and then a teacher.