Centre Pompidou - Metz facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Centre Pompidou - Metz |
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Modern, Culture and Leisure |
| Town or city | Metz |
| Country | France |
| Construction started | 7 november 2006 |
| Completed | 2010 |
| Cost | 60,73 million Euro |
| Client | Agglomeration community of Metz Métropole |
| Technical details | |
| Size | 77 meters |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Shigeru Ban & Jean de Gastines |
| Architecture firm | Shigeru Ban Architects Europe |
The Centre Pompidou Metz is a museum of modern and contemporary art. It is located in Metz, France. It exhibits sculptures, modern and contemporary paintings and graphic art.
The architecture of the building is inspired by a traditional Chinese hat. The carpentry is an innovative assembly composed of sixteen kilometers of wood.
Inaugural exhibition of 2010
Some elements of the inaugural exhibition were borrow by the Centre Georges Pompidou of Paris, especially:
- La Femme à la guitare, Georges Braque,
- La Tristesse du Roi, Henri Matisse,
- L'Aubade, Nu couché et musicien, Pablo Picasso,
- Le Violon d'Ingres, photographie, Man Ray,
- La Maison tropicale, architectural prototype conceive by Jean Prouvé.
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The structure
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The wood carpentry
Images for kids
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Interior view of the carpentry structure at night. On the Gallery 1's roof, Daniel Buren, Echo of Echos, in December 2011
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Metz's signage systems created by Swiss designer Ruedi Baur indicating the direction toward the Centre Pompidou-Metz
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View on the Saint Stephen cathedral and the railway water tower from Gallery 3
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Pablo Picasso, Parade, 1917, curtain in May 2012, during the exhibition 1917.
See also
In Spanish: Centre Pompidou-Metz para niños
