Art Brut
The digital archive of the Art Brut collection
from the Cesare Lombroso Museum of Criminal Anthropology and the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the University of Turin
Exhibition Pathways
Museums
Cesare Lombroso Museum of Criminal Anthropology
The Lombroso Museum’s collection represents one of the rare surviving examples of collecting activity undertaken between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It comprises works created by individuals confined in psychiatric institutions, many of whom had no formal artistic training.
Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography
Assembled between the late 19th century and the mid-20th century, this collection documents the creative output of patients in the Royal Psychiatric Hospitals of Turin, particularly the facility located in Collegno.