Jardin de la Luna Rossa, Public garden in Caen, France

The Jardin de la Luna Rossa is a small outsider-art museum set in a roughly 950 m² garden on rue Damozanne in Caen, near the abbaye aux Hommes and behind the Quartier Lorge. Its works by self-taught artists are made of concrete or recycled materials such as ceramic shards. Among tall leaves and blue irises stand white humanoid sculptures, one with red lips and a red bikini bottom raising both arms, another holding a brown sphere overhead, beside posts with reddish finials and a red star.

The garden began as a bequest from a local resident, on condition that the plot keep its purpose. It then lay abandoned for 25 years. A 1901-law association founded in 1996 took it over, and the garden-museum opened officially in June 1998 to safeguard outsider art by self-taught artists.

The garden takes its name, Luna Rossa (red moon), from the association that has managed it since 1996 and opened it in June 1998. It displays outsider art by self-taught artists, including Fernand Châtelain, Henri Chéné and Euclides Ferreira Da Costa, creator of the Maison Bleue in Dives-sur-Mer.

The garden-museum is open to the public from April to the end of October, with free admission. It occupies about 950 m² on rue Damozanne, near the abbaye aux Hommes and behind the Quartier Lorge. Look for concrete works and pieces made from recycled materials such as ceramic shards.

The garden occupies about 950 m² on rue Damozanne, behind the Quartier Lorge. The land was left by a local resident on condition that it keep its purpose, then stood abandoned for 25 years before the association founded in 1996 opened the garden-museum in June 1998.