(Centre Georges-Pompidou), the ex-president of France, is located on Rue Beaubourg, 9. An extremely atypical creation by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers was erected in 1977 in defiance of all classicists and lovers of antiquity. The concept of the building is designed to emphasize that here the center is precisely contemporary art: communications turned outwards do not allow forgetting about it even for a minute.
Exposition and sections
The main wealth of the Center is its Public Library, which occupies three floors and contains, in addition to books and periodicals, thousands of audio CDs and documentaries. Entrance is free (from the courtyard), but only ticket holders will be able to climb the escalator to where you can see the nearby beauties of Paris and the famous Beaubourg.
One of the reasons for this popularity is the variety of pastimes available here. So, on the second floor of the Georges Pompidou Center, there are two cinemas where retrospectives of film classics are held. Visitors have the opportunity not only to immerse themselves in this area of art - cinema, but also to rest their tired legs in order to continue the tour after the session.
The extravagant Atelier Brancusi theater is located in the basement and acquaints the audience with new trends in the field acting skills and scenography. there are workshops where professionals work with young creators.
For the hungry, catering points of three price categories are open: a budget snack bar on the second floor, a slightly more expensive cafe on the mezzanine (the right escalator from the main entrance), and for gourmets - Georges, where you need to book a table.
Shop for art, art books, design books, and keepsake posters on the ground floor at Printemps Design Boutique or upstairs at Flammarion Arts Bookstores (these are the 4th and 6th floors). Around the museum all year round the carnival never stops: people perform, sell their paintings, and crowds of merchants ensure that no one leaves without some cute trinket.
Tickets for the Pompidou Center
The cost of visiting the Pompidou Center depends on age:
- Adults - 14 euros (museum and exhibitions).
- Minors do not need a ticket.
- For persons from 18 to 25 years old - 11 euros.
- On the first Sunday of the month, admission is free for everyone.
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The strange construction of glass and metal strikes the imagination not only from the outside. Samples of contemporary art presented in Georges Pompidou Center, cause a slight shock even among worldly-wise lovers of Art Nouveau. It is in this center that the National Museum Contemporary Art, Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics and Music. In addition to them, this building houses a library and art workshops for children, cinema and conference rooms, cafes and restaurants. More than 8,000,000 people visit the Pompidou Center every year.
A strange design from glass and metal strikes the imagination not only from the outside. Samples of modern art presented in name center Georges Pompidou , cause a slight shock even among worldly-wise lovers of Art Nouveau. It is in this center that the National Museum of Modern Art, the Institute for Research and Coordination in the field of acoustics and music are now located. Apart from them in this building there is a library and art workshops for children, cinema and conference halls, cafes and restaurants. More than 8,000,000 people visit the Pompidou Center every year. Human.
Location:
The Pompidou Center is located in one of the oldest districts of Paris, called Beaubourg. From the thirties until 1971, when the construction of the Center began, there was just a giant wasteland of an abandoned construction site. Now, in the place of this wasteland, there is a miracle of modern architecture- multifunctional center Pompidou. Among the restored and renovated buildings of the quarter, it stands out sharply for its modern architecture.
On the square in front of the Center on January 31, 1987, curious Zhenitron watch, created by two designers - Francois Scali and Alain Domingo. 9 luminous numbers running on the scoreboard count the time separating us from the year 2000 (with an accuracy of 300 milliseconds in 13 years). The machine below for 10 francs gives out a souvenir postcard with the time stamped on it.
Across the street, on Igor Stravinsky Square, in March 1983, an extraordinary 30-meter pool was opened, lined with strange colorful figures of Niki de Saint Phalle and fountains by Jean Tinguely. The sculptures illustrate the works of the famous Russian composer: The Rite of Spring, The Firebird, The Tale of the Fox, etc.
On the other side of the square in front of the Center, usually filled with street artists, musicians and magicians, a modern quarter of the Clock has grown, crossed by pedestrian streets framed by beautiful shop windows and cozy cafes. On one of the houses of the quarter there is a large automatic clock "Defender of Time" - the work of Jean Monestier. Every hour is armed with a sword. The protector of time fights a dragon, a bird and a crab, which symbolize the elements of earth, air and water. The clock gave its name to the whole quarter.
Not far from the clock, a glass entrance leads to the Magic of Automata pavilion, where about 300 moving and singing automata represent 12 fabulous performances. And right there, at the corner of Brantome and Rambuteau streets, Prometheus rises - an amazing statue of our contemporary, sculptor Joseph Zadkine.
By order of French President Georges Pompidou, preparations began in Paris for the construction of an unusual cultural center, which should not only consist of museums, libraries and recreational facilities, but should also become the pride of France itself. He was supposed to make modern art widely known.
More than 680 projects were submitted to the design competition held in 1969, and craftsmen from 48 countries of the world took part in it. best job the project of the Italian Renzo Piano and the Englishman Richard Rogers was recognized.
This building was supposed to represent a new high-tech architectural trend. The main idea was to place outside what should be inside. The avant-garde architecture of the building, reminiscent of its interweaving of pipes (all communications are brought out - this allows you to free up almost 20 thousand square meters) an oil refinery. This should symbolize the main purpose of the center - the mass "production" and dissemination of culture. Moreover, all this is located in the very center of one of the oldest districts of Paris - in the center of the old Beaubourg quarter.
900 million francs (about 137 million euros) were spent on the entire construction. After 5 years of construction, on January 31, 1977, the construction of a giant cultural center-factory of contemporary art was completed. And the center opened for visitors 2 months later - on February 2, 1978.
Building features:
The eight-storey center is 42 meters high, 166 meters long and 60 meters wide. The area of each floor is 7,800 square meters, and the area of the entire building is 100,000 square meters.
From the outside, the center looks quite colorful, since all its parts that are brought outside are painted in different colors: transport communications (stairs, elevators, escalators, lifts) are red, electrical wiring is yellow, water pipes are yellow, air conditioning is blue.
Immediately in one place are museums and creative workshops. AT modern center Pompidou now houses the National Museum of Modern Art, the Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics and Music, a library and art workshops for children, cinema and conference rooms, cafes and restaurants.
The center is crossed diagonally by a giant glazed escalator. On the top floor there is an observation deck where you can admire the views of Paris. From here you can clearly see the Saint-Jacques tower, the Notre-Dame cathedral and the hills of Montmartre with the Sacré-Coeur basilica.
The structure of the roof deserves special attention. It consists of several parts, which, in fact, are 14 posts and 13 sections based on them, with an interval of 12.8 meters. The roof is fastened by vertical panels of 4 facades and horizontal panels at the levels of each floor. Everything is topped with concrete slabs.
In total, the center has 8 floors, each floor is 7 meters high. The entire span structure made of glass and metal is absolutely open throughout the entire volume. In the very center of the building is an empty space. They didn’t force him on purpose, thus leaving room for a kind of square, which looks more like one of the city streets.
The first, second and third floors are occupied by the library. The richest book depository of the Center occupies 15 thousand square meters. m and has 400 thousand volumes. The library receives up to 11 thousand people daily (up to 19 thousand visitors on weekends). In addition to books, the library has transparencies, microdocuments, records, cassettes and films from a wide variety of fields of knowledge. At the disposal of visitors on the 2nd floor there is a language laboratory, which allows using modern facilities to study any foreign language. languages.
The most interesting attraction of the Center is the National Museum of Modern Art, moved in 1977 from its former premises in the Tokyo Palace. The museum occupies halls on the 4th and 5th floors of the building. There are 3,600 paintings, 2,000 sculptures, 8,000 drawings, 3,000 photographs, 800 prints by French and foreign masters, including Bonnard, Braque, Vlaminck, Dali, Delaunay, Dufy, Kandinsky, Léger, Marche, Matisse, Miro, Modigliani, Picasso, Soutine , Chagall and many others.
On the same floor there is one of the two halls of the cinematheque (the second is the Garance hall, which is located on the 1st floor), which screens 20 films from all over the world every week.
Even before the opening of the center, there were many opponents of this new building. They called it an oil refinery or a drilling rig. But over time, they got used to Bobur, appreciating his many advantages. The Pompidou Center currently attracts more visitors than any other attraction in the capital - it even overtook the legendary Eiffel Tower. In the twenty years of its existence, the Center Pompidou has been visited by almost 156,000,000 people.
The Pompidou Cultural Center is one of the three most famous places in Paris, second only to the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre in popularity. Its expositions offer visitors to get acquainted with the creations of figures of contemporary art, presented in different directions (painting, sculpture, photography, etc.). In addition to exhibition facilities, the center houses cinema halls, a theater, public library, cafe and restaurant. And for tourists who want to enjoy the beauty of Paris, an observation deck has been equipped in the institution, from the height of which the picturesque landscapes of the capital open up.
The Georges Pompidou National Center for Arts and Culture has been welcoming visitors since 1977. It is located in the old Beaubourg quarter, located in the IV Parisian municipal district (on the map it is located between the Marais and Les Halles quarters). Every year the museum receives about 3.8 million tourists from different countries. Serge Lavigne is now director of the Center Pompidou in Paris. Previously, this position was alternately held by Pontus Hulten and Domenic Bozo. During the work of these people in a leadership position, the institution was replenished with many valuable exhibits, turning into the world's largest museum of art of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Brief biography of the founder of the center
For the first time, the idea of creating a cultural center in Paris was expressed in 1969 by French President Georges Pompidou. This outstanding statesman was born in 1911 in the department of Cantral in central France. Young Georges Pompidou decided to follow in the footsteps of his parents - rural teachers - and at the age of 20 he entered the Higher Normal School in Paris, which trained teachers for educational institutions. After graduation, he went to Marseille to teach French philology.
Georges Pompidou Center for Art and Culture(or it is also called Bobur) is one of the most impressive and controversial buildings in Paris.
This Cultural Center open to visitors daily from 11.00 to 21.00. Entrance is paid, but it is quite inexpensive. There are a lot of people who want to visit this place, so it's best to come about an hour before the opening.
Although I do not consider myself a fan of abstractionism, the museum has something to see even for people who are generally far from art. I don’t really like and understand contemporary art, but the exhibits of the exhibition myself appearance Center Georges Pompidou amazed me.
The center is located in the Beaubourg quarter, between the Marais and Les Halles. The idea of creating this center belongs to the former President of France - Georges Pompidou.
The center is considered the same cultural landmark of France as, for example, Eiffel Tower or the Louvre.
A free entertainment program is held on the square near the center, where everyone can watch the performances of circus performers and musicians.
This modern building is about 166 m long, 60 m wide and 42 m high. The center was built according to an innovative design by architects Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, which was selected from a competition of 680 works. Unusual idea architects was to locate all pipelines, various fittings, escalators and even elevators outside the building, thereby increasing the usable area inside the building. The building looks like it turned inside out.
Reinforcing joints on the building are painted in White color, ventilation pipes are painted blue, electrical wiring is yellow, elevators and escalators are red, and water pipes are green.
On the square to the right of the center is the original and amusing Tingelli Fountain, in which colorful figures are spinning.
When we were inside this unusual building, it felt like we were inside some kind of huge mechanism.
In total, the Georges Pompidou Center has 5 floors. There is a cinema on the first floor of the center. Two floors are occupied by a public library with a huge collection of books, CDs, films and other video files. The third and fourth floors of the building are occupied by the Museum of Modern Art, whose collection includes about 60,000 works by more than 5,000 authors. There is painting, design, sculpture, architecture, photography, installations and more. You can't even list everything.
On the fifth floor there is the Grand Gallery, where temporary exhibitions are most often shown. There is also a large concert hall and the Institute for Research in Acoustics and Music.
In general, all the exhibits in the museum are very interesting to look at; here you can even watch a short film about art.
This museum presents the most incredible and daring thoughts in the abstract thinking people: various products from garbage, iron bottles, cardboard and other similar materials. It was not always clear to me personally what exactly the author wanted to express with his work.
In the center there is a small cafe where you can eat.
In this center you can see, so to speak, the non-standard side of art or simply expand your horizons. Everything is well organized and the tour does not tire at all.
The Georges Pompidou Center is the most unusual museum contemporary art in France. This building, as well as exhibitions, can amaze everyone's imagination. A visit to the center will definitely become one of the highlights of your vacation in Paris.
As for the parameters of the building, this glass and steel parallelepiped is 166 meters long, 60 meters wide, and 42 meters high.
Creation of the Georges Pompidou Center
In 1969, President Georges Pompidou decided that a modern cultural center should be built in the Beaubourg district.
It opened in early 1977. This place immediately became popular with residents of Paris and tourists. Works of art by contemporary designers and artists were exhibited there. In 1992, transformations began in the center. There was a department cultural development, thanks to which lectures, open discussions, film screenings and other events began to be held.
From 1997 to 1999, the center was renovated - the gallery hall was expanded, after which the total area of \u200b\u200bthe center reached 100,000 square meters. Now the center consists of the Museum of Modern Art, exhibition halls, libraries, the Institute for Research and Coordination of Acoustics and Music, the Center for Industrial Design, cinema halls, an observation deck.
In 2010, a branch of the center was opened in the French town of Metz, and in 2015 in the Spanish city of Malaga.
Between 3.5 and 3.8 million people visit the center every year.
Building features
The appearance of the museum in 1977, when it was opened, surprised the inhabitants of Paris: most of the engineering structures were not inside the building, but outside.
The architects proposed to paint the electrical wiring in yellow, blue for water pipes, green for ventilation pipes, and elevators and escalators for red.
In general, the building became the epitome of high-tech style, which was a breakthrough in architecture in the 1970s, and the center is one of the best examples of this style.
The building has six floors in total. There is also an underground floor, there are cinema halls, studio 13/16 for children and teenagers, creative studio- "Studio for children" and a gallery of photographs. On the first floor there is a cinema hall, where art-house film festivals, exhibition halls and a library are held. There is a library on the second and third floors. Books can be read in a separate room, you are not allowed to take anything with you. Entrance to the library is free. On the fourth and fifth floors there are exhibitions “Museum: latest art and Graphic Art Gallery. On the sixth - Gallery of Evolution (Grande Galerie). There is an observation deck on the roof.
Exhibitions at the Pompidou Center
In the halls there are 60,000 exhibits that belong to different types contemporary art - painting, music, architecture, graphics. There you can see the works of Salvador Dali, Henri Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky and other masters. In total, the works of 5,000 authors from all over the world are presented.
The Evolution Gallery (Grande Galerie) displays temporary exhibitions - you will see works of art related to such areas as surrealism, cubism, expressionism.
There are also interesting studios for children from 9 to 12 years old - "Factory", and for teenagers from 13 to 16 years old - "Studio 13/6". Designers, sculptors and artists from all over the world hold interesting workshops there. In addition, children can participate in the creation of works of art.
Opening hours and tickets
There are slight discrepancies in the opening hours of the exhibition halls and the library.
Schedule
- halls from 11:00 to 21:00. Thursdays until 23:00 (only temporary exhibitions on the sixth floor).
- the library is open from Monday to Friday (except Tuesday - a day off) from 12:00 to 22:00. Saturday and Sunday - from 11:00 to 22:00.
Cost of visiting
- The ticket "Museum and exhibitions" includes admission to all halls and the observation deck. Full ticket -14 euros, for students, children and people with disabilities - 11 euros;
- ticket only to the observation deck - 5 euros;
- a ticket to the cinema, full - 6 euros, preferential - 4 euros.
On the first Sunday of each month, admission to the museum, observation deck and children's gallery is free for everyone.
How to get there
The center is located in the Beaubourg quarter between Les Halles and Marais. You can get there like this:
- by metro - to the station "Rambuteau" (Rambuteau - line 11), "Hotel de Ville" (Hôtel de Ville - lines 1 and 11), "Chatelet" (Châtelet - lines 1, 4, 7, 11 and 14) ;
- by buses No. 29, 38, 47, 75 to the stop "Centre Georges Pompidou";
- you can drive to the center by private or rented car. Using a Google map, you can follow the route to the museum from the Champs Elysees (about 30 minutes on the way) or from Charles de Gaulle Airport (about an hour on the way).
You can also get to the center by taxi — Taxi G7, 01 Taxi, Taxis.
Center Georges Pompidou on google panorama
Center Pompidou on video