attendance increasing in 2024

The museum welcomed 22% more visitors compared to 2023. The Center Pompidou will be closed for five years for renovations starting in March.

The museum attributes the increase in attendance to the highlights that marked 2024, it detailed in a press release. The Center Pompidou in Paris welcomed around 3.2 million visitors in 2024, an increase of 22% over one year, said Thursday the museum of modern art which will close this year for a vast renovation over a period of five years. More than 390,000 visitors discovered the retrospective devoted to Brancusi, considered the father of modern sculpture.

And since September, some 512,000 people have strolled through the “Surrealism” exhibition, which celebrates the centenary of the movement born with André Breton’s Manifesto. It remains visible until January 13. The Louvre, Orsay: the Parisian museums must in turn reveal their attendance figures for 2024 next week. As for the Center Pompidou, also called Beaubourg, the 2025 vintage promises to be marked by the prologue of a vast project, including the bill is estimated at 262 million euros for the State.

Inaugurated in 1977, it must close gradually between March and September, until 2030, for asbestos removal and renovation work, from top to bottom. This closure worries employees and numerous strikes have been organized since the work was announced.

During these five years of closure, it is planned that its collection and its programming will circulate in other cultural institutions, in France and around the world.

The Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay and the other Parisian museums must in turn reveal their attendance figures in 2024 next week.

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