The public remains loyal to the contemporary art center in 2024. +2.3%, this is the increase recorded last year for Pompidou-Metz. A progression which can be explained in particular by the strong return of foreign visitors.
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The Center Pompidou-Metz announced this Monday, January 6, 2025, that it had welcomed approximately 308,438 visitors in 2024, a slight increase of 2.3% over one year. An attendance which allows him “during this same year 2024“to cross”the symbolic bar of 5 million visitors since its opening“.
Presented since June 1, 2024, the Katharina Grosse exhibition. Move the stars “where the visitor is invited to immerse, until February 24, 2025, in the color of a monumental 8,000 m² canvas suspended in the Great Nave welcomed 112,809 visitors in 183 days“. Behind, we find André Masson. There is no completed world (104,128 visitors in 135 days) and Lacan, When art meets psychoanalysis (94,983 visitors in 127 days).
“Thanks to programming focused on youth, the average age of visitors has fallen below 36 years in 2024, a significant improvement compared to 46 years in 2019” analyse l’institution, “foreign visitors, particularly from Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, returned in force, illustrating the role of the Center Pompidou-Metz as a major cultural player in the Grand Est Region to the north from Europe“.
In May 2025, the institution is preparing to celebrate its 15th anniversary and announces “a vibrant and promising program“.
For its part, the Center Pompidou in Paris welcomed around 3.2 million visitors in 2024, an increase of 22% over one year, indicates the modern art museum which will close this year for a vast renovation on a period of five years. Among the 2024 attendance successes, the retrospective dedicated to Brancusi, considered the father of modern sculpture, attracted more than 390,000 visitors.
