ABSTRACT
Brittany’s Regional Fund for Contemporary Art (in French, Fonds Régional d’art
Contemporarian or FRAC) is most often referred to as the FRAC Bretagne. The
FRAC Bretagne is one of the many regional institutions created by France’s
Ministry of Culture to help people throughout France connect to contemporary
art. Previously housed in an old school, the institution mounted contemporary art
exhibitions in other buildings throughout the region. To increase FRAC Bretagne’s
visibility and provide a state-of-the-art home for the institution and the art it had
collected, the Ministry of Culture hired Studio Odile Decq to design a building for
the museum. The resulting building offers exhibition spaces, spaces for the public,
and spaces for education in addition to storage and restoration spaces.
