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Centre Georges Pompidou
General information
Type Culture and leisure
Architectural style Postmodern / high-tech
Location Paris, France
Completed 1971–1977
Technical details
Structural system Steel superstructure with reinforced concrete floors
Design and construction
Architect Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Gianfranco Franchini
Structural engineer Arup
Services engineer Arup

Centre Georges Pompidou is an art museum in Paris. It opened in 1977, and is named after Georges Pompidou, a former President of France. It houses the largest museum for modern art in Europe.

Attendance

Picasso-in-Pompidou-Centre
Pablo Picasso's works in the Centre

The Centre Pompidou was intended to handle 8,000 visitors a day. In its first two decades it attracted more than 145 million visitors, more than five times the number first predicted. As of 2006, more than 180 million people have visited the centre since its opening in 1977. However, until the 1997-2000 renovation, 20 percent of the centre's eight million annual visitors—in the main foreign tourists—rode the escalators up the outside of the building to the platform for the sights.

Since 2006, the global attendance of the centre is no longer calculated at the main entrance, but only the one of the Musée National d'Art Moderne and of the public library (5,209,678 visitors for both in 2013), but without the other visitors of the building (929,431 in 2004 or 928,380 in 2006, for only the panorama tickets or cinemas, festivals, lectures, bookshops, workshops, restaurants, etc.).

The Musée National d'Art Moderne itself saw an increase in attendance from 3.1 million (2010) to 3.6 million visitors in 2011 and 3.75 million in 2013.

The 2013 retrospective "Dalí" broke the museum’s daily attendance record; 7,364 people a day went to see the artist’s work (790,000 in total).

Exhibitions

Several major exhibitions are organised each year on either the first or sixth floors. Among them, many monographs:

  • Francis Bacon (1996)
  • Fernand Léger (1997)
  • David Hockney (1998)
  • Philip Guston (2000)
  • Picasso (2000)
  • Jean Dubuffet (2001)
  • Roland Barthes (2002)
  • Max Beckmann (2002)
  • Nicolas de Staël (2003)
  • Sophie Calle (2003)
  • Cocteau (2003)
  • Philippe Starck (2003)
  • Miró (2004)
  • Aurelie Nemours (2004)
  • Charlotte Perriand (2005)
  • Robert Rauschenberg (2006)
  • Claude Closky (2006)
  • Jean-Luc Godard (2006)
  • Yves Klein (2006)
  • Hergé (2006)
  • Annette Messager (2007)
  • Richard Rogers (2007)
  • Samuel Beckett (2007)
  • David Claerbout (2007)
  • Julio González (2007)
  • Alberto Giacometti (2007)
  • Louise Bourgeois (2008)
  • Pol Abraham (2008)
  • Tatiana Trouvé (2008)
  • Miroslav Tichy (2008)
  • Dominique Perrault (2008)
  • Jean Gourmelin (2008)
  • Jacques Villeglé (2008)
  • Ron Arad (2008)
  • Alexander Calder (2009)
  • Philippe Parreno (2009)
  • Kandinski (2009)
  • Pierre Soulages (2009)
  • Étienne Martin (2010)
  • Lucian Freud (2010)
  • Arman (2010)
  • François Morellet (2011)
  • Edvard Munch (2011)
  • Gerhard Richter (2012)
  • Salvador Dalí (2013)
  • Roy Lichtenstein (2013)
  • Mike Kelley (2013)
  • Pierre Huyghe (2013)
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson (2014)
  • Simon Hantaï (2014)
  • Jeff Koons (2014)
  • Mona Hatoum (2015)
  • Wifredo Lam (2015)
  • Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (2015)

Images for kids

  • Pompidou Centre building technology

    Building technology

  • Metz (F) - Centre Pompidou - Außenansicht

    The Centre Pompidou-Metz.

  • Málaga Centre Pompidou.20150418

    Branch in Málaga (Spain)

  • Pompidou-centre-interior

    Part of the expositions in the Centre


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