Léger's wife, Nadia, and Georges Bauquier created this museum to honor Fernand Leger (1881-1955). Inaugurated in 1960, it became a national museum in 1967. Modern and functional, the architecture is the work of André Svetchine and was conceived to allow the presentation of two monumental works derived from the artist's studies. The first is a composition covering 500 square meters of the facade. It uses ceramic and mosaic and takes sports as its theme. The second work, a large stained-glass composition, awaits visitors inside the museum's entry hall. The museum's surface area was doubled in 1987 to accommodate the quasi-totality of the hundreds of works that constitute the collection. The collections provide a broad, panoramic survey of Leger's oeuvre: paintings, sculptures, ceramics, drawings, tapestries, etc.