The Fonds régionaux d’art contemporain (Regional Collections of Contemporary Art – Frac) was created in 1982 and based on a partnership between the French government and regional councils. Their mission is to establish public contemporary art and architecture collections, display them to wide-ranging audiences and to devise new ways of raising awareness of contemporary art and architecture.

The Frac institutions include exhibition spaces, storage facilities and educational and documentary resource areas. Yet they are unrestricted to a unique exhibition site. Their heritage is essentially nomadic and uses original dissemination and educational tools; as such the FRAC collections travel regionwide, as well as throughout France and abroad.