Arts and culture
Collection de l'Art Brut
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
The founding art brut museum, opened 1976 in Château de Beaulieu, Lausanne, from Jean Dubuffet's 1971 donation of ~5,000 works to the city; now holds over 60,000 pieces.
- Focus
- Neurodiversity, cross-neurotype, Psychosis and schizophrenia
- Leadership
- Family- or professional-led
- Where
- In person
- Languages
- French, English
- Since
- 1976
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Verified 2026-09-09 from artbrut.ch. Added 2026-09-09 by the editorial team.
Note: Curatorial institution run by the City of Lausanne, not artist-led. Many original works came from psychiatric patients, but the collection deliberately spans self-taught/marginal creators beyond that population.
Suggest a correction46.530, 6.630