Centre Pompidou

The idea for a multicultural complex, bringing together different forms of art and literature in one place, developed, in part, from the ideas of France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs, André Malraux, a proponent of the decentralisation of art and culture by impulse of the political power.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} In the 1960s, city planners decided to move the food markets of Les Halles, historically significant structures long prized by Parisians, with the idea that some of the cultural institutes be built in the former market area. Hoping to renew the idea of Paris as a leading city of culture and art, it was proposed to move the Musée d'Art Moderne to this new location. Paris also needed a large, free public library, as one did not exist at this time. At first the debate concerned Les Halles, but as the controversy settled, in 1968, President Charles de Gaulle announced the Plateau Beaubourg as the new site for the library.

In 1969, Georges Pompidou, the new president, adopted the Beaubourg project and decided it to be the location of both the new library and a centre for the contemporary arts. In the process of developing the project, the IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique) was also housed in the complex.

The Rogers and Piano design was chosen among 681 competition entries. World-renowned architects Oscar Niemeyer, Jean Prouvé, and Philip Johnson made up the jury.{{cite video |people=Richard Copans, Director |title=Le Centres Georges Pompidou |url=https://vimeo.com/197148859 |year=2007 |access-date=17 September 2019 |location=France |medium=Film}} It was the first time in France that international architects were allowed to participate. The selection was announced in 1971 at a press conference, where the contrast between the sharply-dressed Pompidou and "hairy young crew" of architects represented a "grand bargain between radical architecture and establishment politics."{{cite news |last=Moore |first=Rowan |title=Pompidou Centre: a 70s French radical that's never gone out of fashion |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jan/08/pompidou-centre-40-years-old-review-richard-rogers-renzo-piano |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |date=8 January 2017 |access-date=18 September 2019 |archive-date=29 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190729170402/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jan/08/pompidou-centre-40-years-old-review-richard-rogers-renzo-piano |url-status=live}}

A major renovation is due to take place between 2025 and 2030. The Centre Pompidou will be closed from 2 March 2025 until 2030.{{cite web | title=The Centre Pompidou is transforming itself | website=Centre Pompidou | url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/the-centre-pompidou-is-transforming-itself | access-date=20 February 2025}} The BPI will be temporarily relocated to its Lumière building at 40 avenue des Terroirs de France on 25 August 2025.{{cite web | title=Bibliothèque publique d'information | website=Bpi | url=https://www.bpi.fr/en/the-library/missions-and-organisation/bpi-relocation/ | access-date=20 February 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250108211425/https://www.bpi.fr/en/the-library/missions-and-organisation/bpi-re|archive-date= 8 January 2025|url-status=live}}

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Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, two emerging architects in their thirties, designed the first major example of an "inside-out" building with its structural system, mechanical systems, and circulation exposed on the exterior of the building, reflecting their belief that they had no chance of winning the commission.{{Cite web |date=8 February 2017 |title=BBC Arts – BBC Arts – A very Parisian scandal: The Pompidou Centre at 40 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/kTlZ2DLm4NCVjkdzXnFHlW/a-very-parisian-scandal-the-pompidou-centre-at-40 |archive-date= |access-date=22 November 2024 |publisher=BBC |language=en-GB}} Gianfranco Franchini was also involved in the design.{{Cite book |last=Hall, Jane |title=Breaking ground : architecture by women |date=16 October 2019 |isbn=978-0-7148-7927-7 |page=161 |oclc=1099690151}}

Explaining the ideas that informed the Centre Pompidou's design, Piano said, "Our idea was a museum that would inspire curiosity, not intimidate people, and that would open up culture to all... Our credo was a place for all people – for the poor and rich, the young and old".{{Cite news |last=Lutyens |first=Dominic |date=26 March 2025 |title=The pioneering building that scandalised Paris |url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250326-the-pioneering-building-that-scandalised-paris |access-date=2 April 2025 |work=BBC}}

The daring design increased the efficiency of interior space utilization. Initially, all of the functional structural elements of the building were colour-coded: green pipes are plumbing, blue ducts are for climate control, electrical wires are encased in yellow, and circulation elements and devices for safety (e.g., fire extinguishers) are red.{{Cite journal |last=Sisson |first=Patrick |title=Centre Pompidou, a monument to modernity: 8 things you didn't know |journal=Curbed |date=23 January 2017 |url=https://www.curbed.com/2017/1/23/14365014/centre-pompidou-paris-museum-renzo-piano-richard-rogers |access-date=17 September 2019 |archive-date=2 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502003311/https://www.curbed.com/2017/1/23/14365014/centre-pompidou-paris-museum-renzo-piano-richard-rogers |url-status=live}} According to Piano, the design was meant to be "not a building but a town where you find everything – lunch, great art, a library, great music".

The Centre Pompidou, initially met with dismay akin to the Eiffel Tower's reception in its time, is now widely regarded as an artwork in its own merit. National Geographic described the reaction to the design as "love at second sight."{{cite magazine |magazine=National Geographic |date=October 1980 |page=469 |last=Newman |first=Cathy |title=The Pompidou Center Captivates Paris |url=https://nationalgeographicbackissues.com/national-geographic-october-1980.html}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} An article in Le Figaro declared: "Paris has its own monster, just like the one in Loch Ness." But two decades later, while reporting on Rogers' winning the Pritzker Prize in 2007, The New York Times noted that the design of the Centre "turned the architecture world upside down" and that "Mr. Rogers earned a reputation as a high-tech iconoclast with the completion of the 1977 Pompidou Centre, with its exposed skeleton of brightly coloured tubes for mechanical systems". The Pritzker jury said the Pompidou "revolutionised museums, transforming what had once been elite monuments into popular places of social and cultural exchange, woven into the heart of the city."{{cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/arts/design/28cnd-pritzker.html |title=British Architect Wins 2007 Pritzker Prize |work=The New York Times |date=28 March 2007 |access-date=3 May 2011 |archive-date=17 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417035322/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/arts/design/28cnd-pritzker.html?hp |url-status=live}}

The centre was built by GTM and completed in 1977.{{cite web |url=http://www.vinci.com/vinci.nsf/en/history-sites.htm?OpenAgent&georges_pompidou_centre_in_paris |title=Centre Georges Pompidou |publisher=Vinci |access-date=3 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207105158/http://www.vinci.com/vinci.nsf/en/history-sites.htm?OpenAgent&georges_pompidou_centre_in_paris |archive-date=7 February 2012}} The building cost 993 million French francs. Renovation work conducted from October 1996 to January 2000 was completed on a budget of 576 million francs.{{cite web |title=Architecture of the Building |work=Practical Information |publisher=Centre Pompidou |url=http://www.centrepompidou.fr/pompidou/Communication.nsf/0/B90DF3E7C7F18CAEC1256D970053FA6D?OpenDocument&sessionM=3.1.12&L=2 |access-date=10 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204030132/http://www.centrepompidou.fr/pompidou/Communication.nsf/0/B90DF3E7C7F18CAEC1256D970053FA6D?OpenDocument&sessionM=3.1.12&L=2 |archive-date=4 December 2008}} The principal engineer was the renowned Peter Rice, responsible for, amongst other things, the {{ill|Gerberette|fr|Gerberette|lt=Gerberette.}} During the renovation, the centre was closed to the public for 27 months, re-opening on 1 January 2000.{{cite news |title=Pompidou Centre reopens for 2000 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/587445.stm |access-date=28 January 2021 |work=BBC News |date=1 January 2000 |archive-date=30 July 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040730124816/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/587445.stm |url-status=live}}

In September 2020, it was announced that the Centre Pompidou would begin renovations in 2023, which will require either a partial closure for seven years or a full closure for three years. The projected cost for the upcoming renovations is $235 million.{{Cite news |title=Centre Pompidou faces three- to seven-year renovation closure |work=Artforum |url=http://artforum.com/news/centre-pompidou-faces-three-to-seven-year-renovation-closure-84035 |access-date=10 October 2020 |archive-date=4 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201004173938/https://www.artforum.com/news/centre-pompidou-faces-three-to-seven-year-renovation-closure-84035 |url-status=live}} In January 2021 Roselyne Bachelot, France's culture minister, announced that the centre would close completely in 2023 for four years.{{cite web |last=Bommelaer |first=Claire |date=25 January 2021 |title=Trois ans de fermeture pour le Centre Pompidou |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/quatre-ans-de-fermeture-pour-le-centre-pompidou-20210125 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126215930/https://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/quatre-ans-de-fermeture-pour-le-centre-pompidou-20210125 |archive-date=26 January 2021 |access-date=27 January 2021 |website=Le Figaro |language=fr}}

Because of its location (in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais), the centre is known locally as Beaubourg ({{IPA|fr|bobuʁ|IPA}})

Centre Pompidou houses three major institutions:

• Bibliothèque publique d'information (Bpi; Public Information Library), a vast public library{{cite web | title=Bibliothèque publique d'information | website=Bpi | date=8 January 2025 | url=https://www.bpi.fr/en/home/ | access-date=20 February 2025}}
• {{lang|fr|Musée National d'Art Moderne|italic=no}}, the largest museum for modern and contemporary art in Europe{{cite web | title=National Museum of Modern Art | website=Museums of the World | url=https://museu.ms/museum/details/668/national-museum-of-modern-art | access-date=20 February 2025}}
• IRCAM, a centre for music and acoustic research{{cite web | title=Home| website=IRCAM | date=20 February 2025 | url=https://www.ircam.fr/ | access-date=20 February 2025}}

The BPI holds around 367,000 books, as well as specialist periodicals, audio-visual materials, photographs, and a wealth of other material. The collections are open to the public, but it is not a lending library.{{cite web | title=Bibliothèque publique d'information | website=Bpi | url=https://www.bpi.fr/en/the-library/collections/ | access-date=20 February 2025}} It also hosts cultural events and screens documentary films,{{cite web | title=Bibliothèque publique d'information | website=Bpi | url=https://www.bpi.fr/en/the-library/cultural-offers-and-mediations/ | access-date=20 February 2025}} as well as hosting the Cinéma du Réel documentary film festival.{{cite web | title=Cinéma du réel 2025: discover our partner venues | website=Cinéma du Réel | date=4 December 2024 | url=https://www.cinemadureel.org/en/cinema-du-reel-2025-discover-our-partner-venues/ | access-date=20 February 2025}}

During the major renovation of the Centre Pompidou from March 2025 until 2030, the BPI will be temporarily relocated to its Lumière building at 40 Avenue des Terroirs de France on 25 August 2025.

The sculpture Horizontal by Alexander Calder, a free-standing mobile that is {{Convert|7.6|m|ft|abbr=on}} tall, was placed in front of the Centre Pompidou in 2012.{{cn|date=February 2025}}

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The nearby Stravinsky Fountain (also called the Fontaine des automates), on Place Stravinsky, features 16 whimsical moving and water-spraying sculptures by Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint-Phalle, which represent themes and works by composer Igor Stravinsky. The black-painted mechanical sculptures are by Tinguely, the coloured works by de Saint-Phalle. The fountain opened in 1983.Hortense Lyon, La Fontaine Stravinsky, Collection Baccalaureat arts plastiques 2004, Centre national de documentation pedagogique

The Place Georges Pompidou in front of the museum is noted for the presence of street performers, such as mimes and jugglers. In the spring, miniature carnivals are installed temporarily into the place in front with a wide variety of attractions: bands, caricature and sketch artists, tables set up for evening dining, and even skateboarding competitions.

In 2021 the artists Arotin & Serghei realised for the re-inauguration of the Place Georges Pompidou after years of works, and in the context of IRCAM's festival Manifeste the intermedial large-scale installation Infinite Light Columns / Constellations of The Future 1–4, Tribute to Constantin Brancusi, installed along Piano's IRCAM Tower, on the opposite site of Brancusi's studio, visible from both, the Place Igor Stravinsky and Place Georges Pompidou. Then president of the Centre Pompidou, Serge Lasvignes, said in his 2015 inauguration speech: "The installation symbolises what the Centre Pompidou wants to be... a multidisciplinary ensemble... it is the resurrection of the initial spirit of the Centre Pompidou with the Piazza, the living heart of creation".{{Cite book |last=Stocker |first=Gerfried |title=AROTIN & SERGHEI Infinite Screen – From Light Cells to Monumental Installations at Centre Pompidou |publisher=Hatje Cantz |year=2023 |isbn=978-3-7757-4545-1 |location=Berlin |pages=11 |language=en}}{{cite web | last=Bommelaer | first=Claire | title=Pompidou : Serge Lasvignes s'explique, Fleur Pellerin assume | website=Le Figaro | date=5 March 2015 | url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2015/03/05/03004-20150305ARTFIG00171-pompidou-serge-lasvignes-s-explique-fleur-pellerin-assume.php | language=fr | access-date=20 February 2025}}{{cite web | last=Gignoux | first=Sabine | title=Serge Lasvignes, un nouvel énarque à la tête de Beaubourg | website=La Croix | date=4 March 2015 | url=https://www.la-croix.com/Culture/Expositions/Serge-Lasvignes-un-nouvel-enarque-a-la-tete-de-Beaubourg-2015-03-04-1287298 | language=fr | access-date=20 February 2025}}

By the mid-1980s, the Centre Pompidou was becoming the victim of its huge and unexpected popularity, its many activities, and a complex administrative structure. When Dominique Bozo returned to the Centre in 1981 as Director of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, he re-installed the museum, bringing out the full range of its collections and displaying the many major acquisitions that had been made.Russell, John (29 April 1993), [https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/29/obituaries/dominique-bozo-58-expert-on-picasso-is-dead.html "Dominique Bozo, 58, Expert on Picasso, Is Dead"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201083051/http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/29/obituaries/dominique-bozo-58-expert-on-picasso-is-dead.html |date=1 December 2016 }} The New York Times

By 1992, the Centre de Création Industrielle was incorporated into the Musée National d'Art Moderne, henceforth called "MNAM/CCI". The CCI, as an organisation with its own design-oriented programme, ceased to exist, while the MNAM started to develop a design and architecture collection in addition to its modern and contemporary art collection.{{cn|date=February 2025}}

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The Centre Pompidou was intended to handle 8,000 visitors a day.Rockwell, John (9 March 1994), [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/09/arts/success-takes-toll-on-the-pompidou-center.html "Success Takes Toll on the Pompidou Center"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201083116/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/09/arts/success-takes-toll-on-the-pompidou-center.html |date=1 December 2016 }} The New York Times In its first two decades it attracted more than 145 million visitors, more than five times the number first predicted.[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/587445.stm "Pompidou Centre reopens for 2000"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193529/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/587445.stm |date=2 January 2014 }} BBC News, 1 January 2000 {{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—predominantly foreign tourists—rode the escalators up the outside of the building to the platform for the sights.Riding, Alan (22 December 1999), [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/22/arts/arts-abroad-pompidou-unearths-the-museum-within.html "Pompidou Unearths the Museum Within"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201082645/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/22/arts/arts-abroad-pompidou-unearths-the-museum-within.html |date=1 December 2016 }} The New York Times

During a three-year renovation ending in its 2000 reopening, the Centre Pompidou improved accessibility for visitorsNayeri, Farah (2 November 2006), [https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a5B6nSiVaTvs "Paris's Pompidou, 30 Next Year, Courts the Young, Branches Out"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924140248/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a5B6nSiVaTvs |date=24 September 2015 }} Bloomberg

Between 1977 and 2006, the centre had 180 million visitors.{{cite web |title=La fréquentation du (Global attendance of Pompidou Centre), 2006 |work=Mediation |publisher=Centre Pompidou |url=http://mediation.centrepompidou.fr/education/ressources/ENS-architecture-Centre-Pompidou/comment_ca_vit/p1_sp_1.htm |access-date=5 December 2014 |archive-date=19 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219115114/http://mediation.centrepompidou.fr/education/ressources/ENS-architecture-Centre-Pompidou/comment_ca_vit/p1_sp_1.htm |url-status=live}} 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.). In 2017, the museum had 3.37 million visitors. The public library had 1.37 million.{{cite web |url=https://www.parisdigest.com/paris/paris-facts.htm |title=Paris facts |year=2018 |publisher=Paris Digest |access-date=15 September 2018 |archive-date=8 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180908202418/https://www.parisdigest.com/paris/paris-facts.htm |url-status=live}}

The Musée National d'Art Moderne saw an increase in attendance from 3.1 million (2010) to 3.6 million visitors in 2011,Pes, Javier, and Emily Sharpe (23 March 2012), [http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Attendance-survey--Brazils-exhibition-boom-puts-Rio-on-top/26097 "Attendance survey 2011: Brazil's exhibition boom puts Rio on top"], The Art Newspaper. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120607062113/http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Attendance-survey--Brazils-exhibition-boom-puts-Rio-on-top/26097 |date=7 June 2012 }}. 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).Pes, Javier, and Emily Sharpe (24 March 2014), [http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Visitor-figures--Taipei-takes-top-spot-with-loans-from-China/32105 Visitor figures 2013: "Taipei takes top spot with loans from China"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324200237/http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Visitor-figures--Taipei-takes-top-spot-with-loans-from-China/32105 |date=24 March 2014| newspaper=The Art Newspaper}}

Visitors to the centre totalled more than 5,209,678 in 2013,{{efn|Since 2006, the calculated attendance of the centre includes only those of the {{lang|fr|Musée National d'Art Moderne|italic=no}} and of the public library but no longer those of the panorama tickets or cinemas, festivals, lectures, bookshops, workshops, restaurants, etc: 929,431 visitors in 2004 or 928,380 in 2006, which should bring the actual total attendance of the centre to more than 6 million.}} including 3,746,899 for the museum.{{cite web |title=Annual report 2013 |page=205 |publisher=Centre Pompidou |url=http://mediation.centrepompidou.fr/documentation/bilandactivite2013/ |access-date=5 December 2014 |archive-date=21 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021083700/http://mediation.centrepompidou.fr/documentation/bilandactivite2013/ |url-status=live}}

The centre had 3.1 million visitors in 2022, a large increase from 2021 but still below 2019 levels, due to closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in France.{{Cite web |date=5 January 2023 |title=La fréquentation des musées parisiens en nette hausse en 2022, un retour à la normale d'avant pandémie se profile |url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/arts-expos/la-frequentation-des-musees-parisiens-en-nette-hausse-en-2022-un-retour-a-la-normale-d-avant-pandemie-se-profile_5582568.html |access-date=7 January 2023}}

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In 2010, the Centre Georges Pompidou opened a regional branch, the Centre Pompidou-Metz, in Metz a city 250 kilometres east of Paris. The new museum is part of an effort to expand the display of contemporary arts beyond Paris's large museums. The new museum's building was designed by the architect Shigeru Ban with a curving and asymmetrical pagoda-like roof topped by a spire and punctured by upper galleries. The 77-metre central spire is a nod to the year the Centre Georges Pompidou of Paris was built – 1977. The Centre Pompidou-Metz displays unique, temporary exhibitions from the collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, which is not on display at the main Parisian museum.

Since its inauguration, the institution has become the most visited cultural venue in France outside Paris, accommodating 550,000 visitors/year.{{cite web |url=http://www.veilleinfotourisme.fr/frequentation-en-hausse-dans-les-musees-et-monuments-nationaux-en-2011-82338.kjsp?RH=1223377672109 |title=Official website of France tourism survey, 2011 Museum frequentation |access-date=30 December 2011 |language=fr |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130309033739/http://www.veilleinfotourisme.fr/frequentation-en-hausse-dans-les-musees-et-monuments-nationaux-en-2011-82338.kjsp?RH=1223377672109 |archive-date=9 March 2013 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://www.moselle-tourisme.com/espace-cdt-moselle/PDF/chiffres-cles-2011.pdf |title=Official website of Moselle tourism office, 2011 key numbers |page=12 |access-date=17 September 2019 |language=fr |archive-date=29 July 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729000505/http://www.moselle-tourisme.com/espace-cdt-moselle/PDF/chiffres-cles-2011.pdf |url-status=live}}

Launched in 2011 in Chaumont, the museum for the first time went on the road to the French regions with a selection of works from the permanent collection. To do this, it designed and constructed a mobile gallery, which, in the spirit of a circus, will make camp for a few months at a time in towns throughout the country.Morrison, Lennox.(14 October 2011), [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203476804576616661164400104 Ladies and Gentlemen... Cirque Pompidou] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212092145/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203476804576616661164400104 |date=12 February 2017 }} The Wall Street Journal However, in 2013, the Centre Pompidou halted its mobile-museum project because of the cost.Harris, Gareth (9 July 2013), [http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Pompidou-camps-out-in-Dhahran/30074 Pompidou camps out in Dhahran] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130713120740/http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Pompidou-camps-out-in-Dhahran/30074 |date=13 July 2013 |newspaper=The Art Newspaper}}

In 2014, plans were released for a temporary satellite of the Centre Pompidou in the northern French town of Maubeuge close to the Belgian border. The 3,000-square-metre outpost, to be designed by the architects Pierre Hebbelinck and Pierre de Wit, is said to be located at the 17th-century Maubeuge Arsenal for four years. The cost of the project is €5.8 million.Harris, Gareth (6 August 2014), [http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Will-Pompidou-extend-its-northern-expansion/33365 Will Pompidou extend its northern expansion?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810061736/http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Will-Pompidou-extend-its-northern-expansion/33365 |date=10 August 2014 |newspaper=The Art Newspaper}}

In 2015, the city authorities in Libourne, a town in south-western France, proposed a Pompidou branch housed in a former military base called Esog.Harris, Gareth (12 February 2015), [http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Pompidou-to-pop-up-all-over-France/37053 Pompidou to pop up all over France] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212202112/http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Pompidou-to-pop-up-all-over-France/37053 |date=12 February 2015 |newspaper=The Art Newspaper}}

In 2019, the Centre Pompidou announced plans to open a {{convert|22000|m2|sqft|abbr=on}} conservation, exhibition and storage space in Massy (Essonne) by 2025. Project backers include the Région Ile-de-France and the French state.Gareth Harris (17 October 2018), [https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/centre-pompidou-to-move-collections-to-new-satellite-venue-in-southern-paris Centre Pompidou to expand and move collections to new satellite venue in southern Paris] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191017220053/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/centre-pompidou-to-move-collections-to-new-satellite-venue-in-southern-paris |date=17 October 2019 }} The Art Newspaper.

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In 2015, approximately 70 works from the Centre Pompidou's collection went on show in a {{convert|2000|m2|sqft|abbr=off}} subterranean glass-and-steel structure called The Cube (El Cubo) in Málaga. According to the Spanish newspaper El País, the annual €1 million cost of the five-year project were funded by the city council.Harris, Gareth (31 December 2013), [http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Mlagas-mayor-says-the-Pompidou-is-coming/31407 Málaga's mayor says the Pompidou is coming] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101102043/http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Mlagas-mayor-says-the-Pompidou-is-coming/31407 |date=1 January 2014 |newspaper=The Art Newspaper}} The partnership with Málaga was announced by the city's mayor but was not confirmed by Pompidou Centre president Alain Seban until 24 April 2014.Deimling, Kate, [http://www.katedeimling.com/pompidou-center-will-launch-short-term-satellites-in-spain-mexico-and-possibly-brazil/ "Pompidou Centre Will Launch Short-Term Satellites in Spain, Mexico, and Possibly Brazil, 2014"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514232454/http://www.katedeimling.com/pompidou-center-will-launch-short-term-satellites-in-spain-mexico-and-possibly-brazil/ |date=14 May 2014 }}

Under the agreement, approximately 100 works from the Pompidou's 20th and 21st century collection were put on display, while a smaller area is being used for temporary exhibitions. Portraiture and the influence of Picasso will be among the subjects explored in the permanent display, organised by the Pompidou's deputy director Brigitte Leal. Highlights will include works by Alberto Giacometti, René Magritte, Alexander Calder and Constantin Brâncuși, and contemporary works by Sophie Calle, Bruce Nauman and Orlan. The city of Málaga also commissioned Daniel Buren to create a large-scale installation within El Cubo.Rojas, Laurie (26 March 2015), [http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Mlagas-mayor-wins-race-to-open-Russian-museum-and-popup-Pompidou/37124 "Málaga's mayor wins race to open Russian museum and pop-up Pompidou"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150330033524/http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Mlagas-mayor-wins-race-to-open-Russian-museum-and-popup-Pompidou/37124 |date=30 March 2015 }}

Following the original five-year agreement that was signed in September 2014, the terms were renewed early 2018 and again in 2024. Under the most recent renewal, Málaga city council agreed to pay the Centre Pompidou an annual fee of €2.7 million over five years (2025–29), rising to €3.1 million in the latter period (2030–34).Gareth Harris (16 July 2024), [https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/07/16/centre-pompidou-malaga-to-remain-in-place-for-another-decade Centre Pompidou Málaga to remain in place for another decade] The Art Newspaper.

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In March 2018, the Centre Pompidou announced plans to open an offshoot branch in Brussels, under the name KANAL - Centre Pompidou. Housed in a former Citroën garage which was transformed by a team comprising ces noAarchitecten (Brussels), EM2N (Zurich) and Sergison Bates architects (London), the new centre brings together the {{convert|12200|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, an architecture centre (CIVA Foundation) and public spaces devoted to culture, education and leisure.Harris, Gareth (26 March 2018), [https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/centre-pompidou-s-brussels-satellite-takes-shape-with-announcement-of-winning-architects Centre Pompidou's Brussels satellite takes shape with announcement of winning architects] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180326213621/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/centre-pompidou-s-brussels-satellite-takes-shape-with-announcement-of-winning-architects |date=26 March 2018 }} The Art Newspaper. The Brussels-Capital region — which acquired the {{convert|16000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} Art Deco-style building in October 2015 — is the main funder project, with the conversion costing €122 million.

In a joint proposal with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presented in 2005, the Centre Pompidou planned to build a museum of modern and contemporary art, design and the media arts in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District.Vogel, Carol (28 October 2005), [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/arts/design/28voge.html From 'Not Interested' to a Collaboration] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141211112217/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/arts/design/28voge.html |date=11 December 2014 }} The New York Times

In 2007, the then president Bruno Racine announced plans to open a museum carrying the Pompidou's name in Shanghai, with its programming to be determined by the Pompidou. The location chosen for the new museum was a former fire station in the Luwan district's Huaihai Park. However, the scheme did not materialize for several years, reportedly due to the lack of a legal framework for a non-profit foreign institution to operate in China.Harris, Gareth (30 April 2012), [http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Pompidou-plans-to-go-global:-focus-is-Brazil,-India,-China/26316 Pompidou plans to go global: focus is Brazil, India, China] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513150439/http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Pompidou-plans-to-go-global:-focus-is-Brazil,-India,-China/26316 |date=13 May 2012 }} The Art Newspaper In 2019, the Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum opened to the public, based in a wing of the {{convert|25000|sqft|m2|abbr=on}} West Bund Art Museum designed by David Chipperfield.Gareth Harris (30 September 2019), [https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/centre-pompidou-s-satellite-space-in-shanghai-to-open-early-november Centre Pompidou's satellite space in Shanghai to open early November] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727193014/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/centre-pompidou-s-satellite-space-in-shanghai-to-open-early-november |date=27 July 2020 }} The inaugural exhibitions The Shape of Time, Highlights of the Centre Pompidou Collection and Observations, Highlights of the New Media Collection were curated by Marcella Lista.{{cite web |last=Moss |first=Alison |title=The Centre Pompidou Takes Shanghai |url=https://www.lequotidiendelart.com/articles/16396-the-centre-pompidou-takes-shanghai.html |access-date=2 November 2020 |website=Le Quotidien de l'Art |archive-date=29 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129205445/https://www.lequotidiendelart.com/articles/16396-the-centre-pompidou-takes-shanghai.html |url-status=live}}{{cite web |last=Harris |first=Gareth |title=Our picks from the opening show at Centre Pompidou's new Shanghai satellite |url=http://www.theartnewspaper.com/gallery/centre-pompidou-x-west-bund-museum |access-date=2 November 2020 |website=theartnewspaper.com |date=8 November 2019 |archive-date=11 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200811193531/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/gallery/centre-pompidou-x-west-bund-museum |url-status=live}}

Other projects include the Pompidou's joint venture with the King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture, an arts complex incorporating a museum in Dhahran, the building of which has stalled.

In April 2014, Pompidou president Alain Seban confirmed that after Malaga (Spain), Mexico will be the next site for a pop-up Pompidou Centre. A 58,000-square-foot satellite museum Centre Pompidou x Jersey City in Jersey City, New Jersey, was scheduled to open in 2024, which would have made it the Pompidou's first satellite museum in North America;{{cite web |last=Marsg |first=Shawn |title=Paris' Centre Pompidou may open its first North American museum in Jersey City |url=https://www.northjersey.com/story/entertainment/arts/2021/06/05/pompidou-jersey-city-nj-2024-french-art-museum/7560255002/ |access-date=5 June 2021 |website=North Jersey Media Group |language=en-US |archive-date=19 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211219141925/https://www.northjersey.com/story/entertainment/arts/2021/06/05/pompidou-jersey-city-nj-2024-french-art-museum/7560255002/ |url-status=live}} however, in 2024, city and state funding for the museum was withdrawn.Alex Greenberger (30 June 2024), [https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/new-jersey-defunds-centre-pompidou-jersey-city-museum-1234711198/ New Jersey Defunds Centre Pompidou's Jersey City Museum, Saying Project Is 'No Longer Viable'] ARTnews. The Jersey City City Council voted in September 2024 to approve a tax abatement, allowing Centre Pompidou x Jersey City to open at an alternative location.{{cite web |last=Greenberger |first=Alex |date=30 September 2024 |title=Centre Pompidou Revives Plans for Jersey City Museum Nixed by Local Politicians |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/centre-pompidou-jersey-city-museum-revived-new-plan-1234719048/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |website=ARTnews}}{{cite web |last=Roche |first=Daniel Jonas |date=4 October 2024 |title=Is Centre Pompidou x Jersey City back on the table? A recent city council vote resuscitates the project |url=https://www.archpaper.com/2024/10/centre-pompidou-jersey-city-city-council/ |access-date=21 December 2024 |website=The Architect's Newspaper}}

There have been rumours of a pop-up Pompidou satellite museum in Brazil since Alain Seban announced the plan for these temporary locations back in 2012. At a talk on satellite museums at the Guggenheim on 24 April 2014, Alain Seban suggested that Brazil may be the third country to host a temporary satellite museum, after Spain and Mexico.

• 2021 – present: Laurent Le Bon
• 2015 – 2021: Serge Lasvignes
• 2007 – 2015: Alain Seban
• 2002 – 2007: Bruno Racine
• 1996 – 2002: Jean-Jacques Aillagon
• 1993 – 1996: François Barré
• 1991 – 1993: Dominique Bozo
• 1989 – 1991: Hélène Ahrweiler
• 1983 – 1989: Jean Maheu
• 1980 – 1983: Jean-Claude Groshens
• 1977 – 1980: Jean Millier
• 1976 – 1977: Robert Bordaz
• 1969 – 1977: Georges Pompidou

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As a national museum, the Centre Pompidou is government-owned and subsidised by the Ministry of Culture (64.2% of its budget in 2012 : 82.8 on 129 million €), essentially for its staff. The Culture Ministry appoints its directors and controls its gestion, which is nevertheless independent, as Etablissement public à caractère administratif since its creation. In 2011, the museum earned $1.9 million from travelling exhibitions[https://socialosso.com/ .]Carvaja, Doreen (23 January 2011), [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/arts/24squeeze.html "'This Space for Rent': In Europe, Arts Now Must Woo Commerce"], The New York Times. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211081200/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/arts/24squeeze.html |date=11 February 2017 }}.

Established in 1977 as the institution's US philanthropic arm, the Georges Pompidou Art and Culture Foundation acquires and encourages major gifts of art and design for exhibition at the museum.[http://www.centrepompidoufoundation.org/Centre_Pompidou_Foundation/HOME.html Centre Pompidou] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130822004214/http://www.centrepompidoufoundation.org/Centre_Pompidou_Foundation/HOME.html |date=22 August 2013 |website=Centre Pompidou Foundation, Los Angeles}}Harris, Gareth (3 May 2012), [http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Pompidou-at-war-with-its-US-friends/26448 Pompidou at war with its US friends] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120511062737/http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Pompidou-at-war-with-its-US-friends/26448 |date=11 May 2012 }} The Art Newspaper Since 2006, the non-profit support group has brought in donations of 28 works, collectively valued at more than $14 million, and purchased many others.Muchnic, Suzanne (3 May 2009), [http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-pompidou3-2009may03,0,4670511.story Centre Pompidou Foundation: L.A.'s French connection] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015141458/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-pompidou3-2009may03,0,4670511.story |date=15 October 2012 }} Los Angeles Times In 2013, New York-based art collectors Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner announced their intention to donate about 300 works by 27 European and international artists to the Centre Pompidou, thereby making one of the largest gifts in the institution's history.Vogel, Carol (15 March 2012), [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/design/hundreds-of-works-to-go-to-whitney-museum-and-pompidou-center.html New York Couple's Gift to Enrich Two Museums] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160805065705/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/arts/design/hundreds-of-works-to-go-to-whitney-museum-and-pompidou-center.html |date=5 August 2016 }} The New York Times

In 1999, the heirs of Alphonse Kann requested the return of Georges Braque's The Guitar Player, which the Centre Pompidou had acquired from Heinz Berggruen in 1981.{{Cite web |last=Wachs |first=Sarah |date=12 February 1999 |title=Collector's heirs ask museum to return Nazi-looted painting |url=https://www.jta.org/1999/02/12/lifestyle/collectors-heirs-ask-museum-to-return-nazi-looted-painting |access-date=7 November 2023 |publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}}

In 2011, Centre Pompidou admitted that it held three paintings, Les Peupliers (Poplars), Arbres (Trees), and Composition by the artist Fédor Löwenstein that had been looted during the Nazi occupation of France.{{Cite web |title=Gifts From Hitler? Pompidou Admits Harboring Three Nazi-Looted Paintings Since 1973 |url=https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=P7A5LE515421 |access-date=7 November 2023 |website=lootedart.com}}

In 2021, after the French government restituted a looted Max Pechtstein painting to the heirs of Hugo Simon, the Centre Pompidou held an exhibition in a tribute to the persecuted art collector.{{Cite web |date=2 July 2021 |title=France returns Pechstein painting looted in occupied Paris to heirs of Hugo Simon, a banker and leading figure in German cultural life |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/07/02/france-returns-pechstein-painting-looted-in-occupied-paris-to-heirs-of-hugo-simon-a-banker-and-leading-figure-in-german-cultural-life |access-date=7 November 2023 |website=The Art Newspaper – International art news and events}}{{Cite web |date=2 July 2021 |title=Le tableau volé, les Nazis et les vers à soie |url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/fr/magazine/article/le-tableau-vole-les-nazis-et-les-vers-a-soie |access-date=7 November 2023 |website=Centre Pompidou |language=fr-FR}}

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• Gordon Matta-Clark Conical Intersect, 1975. Matta-Clark's contribution to the Paris Biennale 1975.[http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/5211 Gordon Matta-Clark, Conical Intersect] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112055758/http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/5211 |date=12 January 2015 }} The Guggenheim Collection
• Roberto Rossellini, Beaubourg, centre d'art et de culture, 1977.Rosselini, Robert. [http://www.macba.cat/en/exhibition-filming-beaubourg- Filming Beaubourg, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141209052836/http://www.macba.cat/en/exhibition-filming-beaubourg- |date=9 December 2014 }} accessed 18 September 2019. A documentary about the Centre which explores the building and its surroundings on its opening day; Rossellini's final film.
• Lewis Gilbert, Moonraker, 1979. A fifth-floor room of the building featured as the office of Holly Goodhead (played by Lois Chiles), in the 1979 James Bond film Moonraker, which in the film was scripted as being part of the space complex of the villainous Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale).{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079574/locations |title=Moonraker (1979) |website=The Internet Movie Database |access-date=3 May 2011 |archive-date=11 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110111050147/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079574/locations |url-status=live}}
• Claude Pinoteau, L'Étudiante, 1988.
• Richard Berry, L'Art (délicat) de la séduction, 2001.
• James Ivory, Le Divorce, 2003.
• Laurent Tirard, Mensonges et trahisons, 2004.
• Éric et Ramzy, Seuls Two, 2008.

• Electric Light Orchestra, "Calling America" music video, 1986. ELO is shown performing the song in front of the centre.
• JJ Burnel Euroman Cometh, 1979. The album cover shows JJ Burnel standing in front of the centre.

• Nearby Métro stations: Rambuteau, Les Halles
• RER: Châtelet – Les Halles

Several major exhibitions are organised each year on either the first or sixth floors, including both monographs and group exhibitions.{{cn|date=February 2025}}

Group exhibitions have included:

• Photography as a weapon of class (2018){{cite web |title=Centre Pompidou {{!}} Institution |url=https://artfacts.net/institution/centre-pompidou/2219/shows |website=artfacts.net |language=en |access-date=20 April 2021 |archive-date=20 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420015324/https://artfacts.net/institution/centre-pompidou/2219/shows |url-status=live}}
• Coder le monde (2018)
• La Fabrique Du Vivant (2019){{cite web |url=https://cdn.filepicker.io/api/file/G2ZkVjRimcNgXnI39SqQ |title=image] La Fabrique Du Vivant |website=Centre Pompidou |access-date=20 April 2021 |archive-date=18 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918110521/https://cdn.filepicker.io/api/file/G2ZkVjRimcNgXnI39SqQ |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.clotmag.com/biomedia/exhibition-la-fabrique-du-vivant-at-centre-pompidou-paris |title=Exhibition Insight: 'La fabrique du Vivant', Centre Pompidou Paris | CLOT Magazine |publisher=Clotmag.com |date=18 February 2019 |access-date=19 December 2021 |archive-date=23 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423075249/https://www.clotmag.com/biomedia/exhibition-la-fabrique-du-vivant-at-centre-pompidou-paris |url-status=live}}
• Jo-Ey Tang & Thomas Fougeirol – Dust. The Plates Of The Present (2020 Group Exhibition)
• Les Moyens Du Bord (2020)
• Global(e) Resistance – Pour une histoire engagée de la collection contemporaine de Jonathas de Andrade à Billie Zangewa (2020)
• NEURONS Simulated intelligence (2020)
• L'écologie des images (2021)

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