The Collection de l’art brut (literally "Collection of Raw Art"; sometimes referred to as "Musée de l’art brut") is a museum dedicated to outsider art located in Lausanne, Switzerland. In his search for art freed of cultural and social conditioning, Jean Dubuffet enthusiastically turned to creations outside the mainstream, in which he perceived a “completely pure artistic operation, raw, brute, and entirely reinvented in all of its phases solely by means of the artist’s own impulses”.
Inaugurated in Lausanne in 1976, the Collection de l’Art Brut came into being thanks to this French artist’s generous donation of works to the city.
