| | | National Museum of Modern Art
Pompidou Center
Paris IVème (France)
|  | Place Georges Pompidou 75004
Métro : Châtelet - Les Halles , Les Halles, Rambuteau
Tél : 01 44 78 12 33
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Horaires :
Ouvert tous les jours sauf thursday
Nocturne monday, wednesday, tuesday, friday, saturday et sunday
11am-9pm, ticket counters closed at 8 p.m.
Rooms closed at 8.50 p.m.,
People allowed to enter free of charge must pick up a free ticket from the Centre Pompidou's ticket offices.
Direct access to the exhibition areas by showing proof : Laissez-passer holders and children under the age of 18 accompanying them, children under the age of 13, disabled people and one accompanying person, French and foreign journalists, Friends of the Centre Pompidou and Friends of the Musée national d'art moderne, Paris Museum Pass holders, officials from the Ministry of Culture, members of Icom and Icomos.
Tarifs :
Museum & exhibitions ticket : €10
Shows, concert : €18/14
Free entrance for under 18s has been extended to exhibitions as well as the museum, with a free ticket picked up from the Centre Pompidou's ticket office.
Children under the age of 13 do not require a ticket. Visitors with tickets are welcome to come by till to retrieve free tickets for their children over the age of thirteen.
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Musée National d'Art Moderne
The Musée National d'Art Moderne is the French national modern art museum located on the fourth and fifth floors of the Centre. Organisationally, it is associated with IRCAM, the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, which is located nearby.
The museum has a major international collection of modern art by artists such as Kandinsky, Matisse, Miró, Picasso, etc. Some of the art movements represented are Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. It has 50,000 works of art (including painting, sculpture, drawing, and photography), of which 1,500 to 2,000 are on public display.
Also located here is the Centre of Industrial Design. 20th century architecture and design are covered. The museum also holds temporary exhibitions. | | Histoire | |
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Centre Georges Pompidou (constructed 1971-1977 and known as the Pompidou Centre in English) is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the IVe arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles and the Marais.
It houses the Bibliothèque publique d'information, a vast public library, the Musée National d'Art Moderne, and IRCAM, a centre for music and acoustic research. Because of its location, the Centre is known locally as Beaubourg. It is named after Georges Pompidou, who was president of France from 1969 to 1974, and was opened on January 31, 1977. The building was designed by the architects Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Sue Rogers and engineers Peter Rice and Edmund Happold, whose design was not popular at first. However, under the guidance of its first director, Pontus Hultén, it quickly became a noted attraction in Paris.
Architecture
The Centre was designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, the British architect couple Richard Rogers and Sue Rogers, and the British structual engineer Edmund Happold and Irish structural engineer Peter Rice. The project was awarded to this team in a design competition, whose results were announced in 1971. 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 Center, with its exposed skeleton of brightly colored tubes for mechanical systems. The Pompidou 'revolutionized museums,' the Pritzker jury said, "transforming what had once been elite monuments into popular places of social and cultural exchange, woven into the heart of the city. The characteristic piping is color-coded according to the contents : yellow for electricity, red for transport(elevators), blue for water, and green for air".
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