The LAM, formerly the Lille Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, will reopen to the public in September 2010. Situated at the crossroads between London, Paris and Brussels, and close to Amsterdam and Cologne, the LaM will be one of the modern art museums in northern Europe which should not be missed.
Situated within an exceptional sculpture park, two stylish buildings provide the setting for an exceptional collection.
The only museum in Europe to simultaneously present the principle elements of art from the 20th and 21st centuries, it will offer the public access to a prestigious collection of modern art, to an impressive collection of internationally famous contemporary art and to the first collection of outsider art in France.
The internationally-renowned collection of modern art is made up of Cubist masterpieces by Georges Braque, Henri Laurens and Pablo Picasso, as well as collections of significant works by Fernand Léger, Joan Miró and Amedeo Modigliani. Fauvism, surrealism, the School of Montparnasse, the School of Paris, art naïf and artists from the north of France are also represented.
The collection of contemporary art, which has been built up throughout the years, brings together the works of both French and foreign artists, amongst them Lewis Baltz, Christian Boltanski, Daniel Buren, Allan McCollum, Annette Messager, Dennis Oppenheim, Pierre Soulages and Jacques Villeglé.
In 1999, these collections were enriched by the addition of the most impressive collection of outsider art in France, which was donated by the Aracine association. The greatest names in outsider art are represented in this collection: Aloïse Corbaz, Fleury Joseph Crépin, Henry Darger, Auguste Forestier, Madge Gill, Jules Leclercq, Augustin Lesage, Adolf Wölfli and even Carlo Zinelli...
A programme of international exhibitions
Outside of its permanent collections whose richness allows for the rotation of the works, the LaM intends to put in place a series of ambitious exhibitions, as well as a rich and varied cultural programme.
A GREAT MODERN MUSEUM IN THE HEART OF EUROPE
