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1 Pompidou Centre

The Pompidou Centre is like a building turned
inside out: escalators, lifts, air and water ducts
and even the massive steel struts that are the
building’s skeleton have all been placed on
the outside. This allowed architects Richard
Rogers, Renzo Piano and Gianfranco Franchini
to create an uncluttered, flexible space within The escalator that rises step by step
it for the Musée National d’Art Moderne, the up the façade overlooking the piazza
world’s largest collection of modern art, as runs through a glass conduit. From the
well as for the Pompidou’s other activities. top, there is a spectacular view over
Paris that includes Montmartre, La
Schools represented in the museum include Défense and the Eiffel Tower.
Fauvism, Cubism and Surrealism. Outside in
the piazza, the street performers attract
crowds. The Pompidou Centre also hosts
temporary exhibitions that thrust it into
the heart of the international art scene.

Key to Floorplan
Exhibition space
Non-exhibition space

Gallery Guide
The permanent collections are on
Levels 4, 5 and 6: Level 4 is reserved for
contemporary art from the 1960s
onwards, while works from 1905 to 1960
are on Levels 5 and 6. Levels 1 and 6 host
major exhibitions, while Levels 1, 2 and 3
house an informa tion library. The lower
levels make up “The Forum”, the focal
public area, which includes a performance
centre for dance, theatre and music, a
cinema and a children’s workshop.

Portrait of the Journalist Le Cheval Majeur
Sylvia von Harden (1926) This bronze horse (1914–16) by
The surgical precision of Dix’s style Duchamp-Villon is one of the finest
makes this a harsh caricature. examples of Cubist sculpture.

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