Modern art from the closed Centre Pompidou will be exhibited in museums across France

Paris – The Paris Museum of Modern Art Centre Pompidou will close on Monday for extensive renovations and will welcome visitors again in 2030. However, works from one of the largest collections of modern art in the world will continue to be on display throughout France and abroad through temporary exhibitions and loans. The museum is closing its spaces with short-term exhibitions, library, and other halls; the permanent collections have not been accessible to visitors since March of this year.

The Centre Pompidou is one of the most significant museums of modern and contemporary art in the world. Its collections consist of more than 140,000 works by artists such as Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, and Joan Miró.

Thanks to the Constellations program, the Centre Pompidou has established partnerships that will allow interested parties to see its collections even during the reconstruction. In the newly renovated Parisian exhibition palace Grand Palais, the museum will host all of its temporary exhibitions until 2030.

Several works from the museum's collections that have never left Paris will be loaned by the Centre Pompidou to its regional branch in Metz. Sculptures by Henry Moore and Henri Laurens, for example, will head to Eastern France. The museum also plans to open another such branch in Massy, a suburb of Paris, by the end of 2026.

The French government has decided to invest in the reconstruction of the building, which suffers from significant wear and corrosion. The building will undergo a complete renovation and the removal of asbestos from all façades, improvements in fire safety, reductions in the building's energy consumption, and also simplification of access for visitors with limited mobility.

The building, also referred to as Beaubourg in relation to the location where it opened to the public in 1977, was designed by architects Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, and Gianfranco Franchini. At the time, the construction drew interest primarily due to its most visible components, especially the placement of transparent staircases and colorful distribution pipes on the exterior walls.