LaM, acronym for Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut, is a French museum, one of the most important museums in Northern Europe. It is located in the heart of the urban park of Villeneuve-d'Ascq, a town not far from Lille. The museum's vast collection is dedicated to three macro sectors: modern art, contemporary art and art brut, thus offering a remarkable representation of the 20th and 21st century art scene. The museum was born at the beginning of the twentieth century from the collection of Roger Dutilleul. He is the first Frenchman to take an interest in and collect the works of Cubism and one of the major private collectors of Modigliani. The collection was then inherited by his nephew, who greatly expanded it, with the acquisition of contemporary works by artists such as Mirò, Klee, Nicolas de Stael. In 1979, part of the collection was donated to the city of Lille, starting the creation of the museum, which has since been committed to expanding the already extensive collection through acquisitions and donations. The collection also includes artistic works defined as "Art Brut", in Italian "spontaneous art", a term coined in 1945 by the French artist Jean Dubuffet to indicate spontaneous artistic productions, without cultural pretensions and without any reflection. The museum's collection includes about 7,000 works, including 4,500 drawings and prints, a thousand sculptures (mostly located in the park around the museum), about 500 paintings and about twenty contemporary art installations. Inside the collection there are works by artists such as Picasso, Braque, Klee, Kandinsky, Léger, Derain, Modigliani, Mirò, Utrillo. The museum also organizes several temporary exhibitions.