LaM (Lille Métropole musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut)

The museum's collection offers an overview in modern and contemporary art, including drawings, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books and artist's books, and electronic media.

• Name — LaM • Established — 1983 • Location — 1, allée du Musée, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France • Website — http: www.musee-lam.fr/

The Villeneuve d'Ascq Museum of Modern Art is opened in 1983 to house the collection of modern art donated by Geneviève and Jean Masurel to Lille conurbation. In 1999, the collections were enriched with a collection of outsider art, thanks to the donation made by the association L'Aracine. In 2002, Manuelle Gautrand was the winner of a competition for the restructuring and extension of the museum. The museum was closed in January, 2006 for restructuring. On September 25, 2010, the museum re-opened under a new name, Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art (LaM).

The museum was built by Roland Simounet in 1983 in a green setting. The building is registered in French Inventaire supplémentaire des Monuments historiques in 2000. Manuelle Gautrand designed an extension, covering 2700 m², of which the construction ended in 2010.

The LaM possesses a library-research center with nearly 40,000 books.

• 2010/09/25 - 2011/01/30: The world as poem. Outsider and Contemporary art exhibition, which highlights artists, writers and film-makers can dwell poetically in the world, in the words of Friedrich Hölderlin.

The following is established of the heading itself. It is also recorded that laM (Lille Métropole musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut) is associated with France. It is also recorded that laM (Lille Métropole musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut) is recorded from 1983.