Throughout his life as a creator, and even more as a collector, architect Alain Bourbonnais questioned himself on the best way to present his collection. In the mid- 70, wishing to create, a setting for his collection of works all akin to art brut, he decided to find a place that could give evidence of the out-of-the-norm specificity of the works in his collection. which had so far remained outside the art network of galleries and museums.
The term “museum-house” immediately suggests the anti-establishment character of the place which Dubuffet qualified as “decentralized anti-Beaubourg”, and “strong citadel of marginal art”.
