Musée imaginaire

An musée imaginaire or imaginary museum is a collection of works of art that a person holds as essential or favourite, so that given the opportunity he or she would bring them together in a single ideal museum.

The term is closely associated with André Malraux's Musée imaginaire, an essay from 1947 in which the principle it refers to is dramatised.[1][2] Other personalities have since made their own selection known, such as Michel Butor in Le Musée imaginaire de Michel Butor, published in 2015 and republished in 2019.[3]

Bibliography

Malraux, André (1996). Le musée imaginaire. Paris: Gallimard. ISBN 9782070329489. OCLC 1126353728.

References

Grasskamp, Walter (6 February 2017). "The Museum in Print: André Malraux's Musée Imaginaire and André Vigneau's Photographic Encyclopaedia of Art". Images of the Art Museum: 301–316. doi:10.1515/9783110341362-015.
Allan, Derek (2 April 2020). "Has André Malraux's imaginary museum come into its own?". Apollo. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
Butor, Michel (2019). Le musée imaginaire de Michel Butor : 105 oeuvres décisives de la peinture occidentale (in French). Paris: Flammarion. p. 368. ISBN 9782081450752. OCLC 1089413748.

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[1] Grasskamp, Walter (6 February 2017). "The Museum in Print: André Malraux's Musée Imaginaire and André Vigneau's Photographic Encyclopaedia of Art". Images of the Art Museum: 301–316. doi:10.1515/9783110341362-015.

[2] Allan, Derek (2 April 2020). "Has André Malraux's imaginary museum come into its own?". Apollo. Retrieved 19 February 2022.

[3] Butor, Michel (2019). Le musée imaginaire de Michel Butor : 105 oeuvres décisives de la peinture occidentale (in French). Paris: Flammarion. p. 368. ISBN 9782081450752. OCLC 1089413748.