With 120,000 works, the Centre Pompidou has the largest art collection in Europe. A collection so rich that it allows visitors to travel through decades of change, to witness the artistic revolutions of the 20th and 21st centuries and to pass through a vertiginous gallery of masterpieces. There is no recipe for fame.
What is special about the Centre Pompidou?
Primarily a museum and centre for the visual arts of the 20th century, the Pompidou Centre houses many separate services and activities. Its museum of modern art brought under one roof several public collections of modern art previously housed in a number of other Paris galleries.
Is Centre Pompidou worth visiting?
The Centre Pompidou is the perfect place to spend the afternoon with your family. The multiple offers of activities for children and adults will satisfy everyone in the family. The art museum is impressive, easy to access, making it perfect for art lovers.
Why is the Pompidou Centre unusual?
The Pompidou Centre in Paris is an unusual looking building that may depict insanity to some critics or high-end construction to others. The building is actually done in high-tech architecture, also called structural expressionism. It uses elements of high- tech industry and technology in building design.
What is the Pompidou Centre known for?
The Centre Pompidou, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, is a 20th-century architectural marvel, immediately recognizable by its exterior escalators and enormous coloured tubing. It is home to the National Museum of Modern Art and is internationally renowned for its 20th and 21st century art collections.
When was Pompidou Centre built?
1971
Why did they build the Centre Pompidou?
The building was the vision of the man it's named after, France's leader between 1962 and 1968. President Georges Pompidou had the idea of a space dedicated to the culture of the 20th and 21st centuries, bringing together visual arts, literature, music, cinema and design in one unique multicultural institution.
What is the Pompidou Centre made of?
glass
Who designed the Pompidou Center in Paris?
Piano & Rogers
How long did Centre Pompidou take to build?
The multi-colored, inside-out, machine of a modern art museum, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, along with Arup engineers and Gianfranco Franchini, was built between 1970 and 1977 in a then-radical fashion to create column-less, flexible interior space for exhibitions (each floor is the size of two full