The Center Pompidou, in Paris, will have to completely close its doors for three years for major restoration work.
This is what the Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot announced on Monday in an interview with Le Figaro.
“There were two options on the table, one being to restore the Center while keeping it open, the other being full shutdown,” she explains.
I chose the second because it turned out to be shorter in time and a little cheaper ”.
The work will start at the end of 2023 and will be completed at the end of 2026, and the center will reopen in early 2027, the Center Pompidou told us.
The National Museum of Modern Art will reopen in 2027 for its 50th anniversary, after modernization and complete asbestos removal.
Serge Lasvignes, president of the Center Pompidou, announced the news Tuesday to the unions.
Work made essential by corrosion and wear
This work had become essential because of the corrosion and wear affecting the immense building, inaugurated in 1977, which houses very important collections of modern and contemporary art, vast exhibition spaces and a very large library in particular. .
The site will allow "to proceed with the total asbestos removal of the building and to renovate it entirely in order to meet the safety standards, the technical and energy standards in force as well as the accessibility obligations for the handicapped people", specified the establishment. public.
Beaubourg, inaugurated in 1977 on the project of former President Georges Pompidou, has never seen work of this magnitude.
It is one of the most important museums of modern and contemporary art in the world, and employs just over 1,000 people.
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The museum had remained closed three and a half months during the first confinement due to coronavirus.
From the summer of 2019, it had undergone a first major phase of work, while remaining open, so that the "caterpillar" which provides access to its different levels is notably renovated.
