La Fabuloserie

La Fabuloserie is a place imagined and designed
by architect Alain Bourbonnais to house his collection of
“art hors-les-normes”.

Opened to the public in 1983, the expression art hors normes was suggested to Alain Bourbonnais by Jean Dubuffet, who wished to reserve the term “art brut” for his own collection.

It refers to unusual creations produced by self-taught artists.

After running a gallery in Paris between 1972 and 1982 — the Atelier Jacob —

Alain Bourbonnais decided, with his wife Caroline, to create a museum he called “La Fabuloserie”. The venue is composed of a “house-museum” showcasing over a thousand works — from the drawings of Yanko Domsic to the stuffed figures of Francis Marshall — as well as the astonishing creations of the Turbulents by Bourbonnais himself. An open-air museum, known as the “inhabited garden”, presents sculptures by “inhabitant-landscapers”: Camille Vidal, Jules Damloup, the weather vanes of Jean Bertholle, and the remarkable carousel of Petit Pierre.

La Fabuloserie
1, rue des Canes
89120 Dicy
+33 386 636 421