The Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture was born from the desire of President Georges Pompidou to create in the heart of Paris an original cultural institution entirely dedicated to modern and contemporary creation, where the visual arts would be side by side with theater, music, the cinema, the books, the activities of speech ...

Located in the heart of Paris, in a building emblematic of the twentieth century designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, the Center Pompidou opened to the public in 1977. Renovated from 1997 to December 1999, it reopened to the public on January 1 2000, by offering expanded museum spaces, enriched reception areas. It is once again one of the most popular monuments in France.