With a rich program throughout the year with some hits, Beaubourg will begin to close its doors from March. Reopening in 2030.
The Pompidou Center in Paris announced Thursday January 2 that it had welcomed 3.2 million visitors in 2024, an increase of 22% over one year. The museum attributes the increase in attendance to the highlights that marked 2024, it detailed in a press release. More than 390,000 visitors discovered the retrospective devoted to Brancusi, the first since that which took place in the same place in 1995, but enriched with numerous elements from archives long blocked for a story of conflict between the couple of legatees universal (Brancusi had no children) and the State.
And since September, 512,000 people have wandered through the abundant “Surrealism” exhibition, which celebrates the centenary of the movement born with Manifest by André Breton. It remains visible until January 13. Other cultural events also brought the public to push the doors further, such as “comics on all levels” and its different variations, or the tribute paid to the Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (winner of a Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2010) through his films, a dedicated exhibition and an augmented reality performance.
Digital innovation, through online content or artificial intelligence-based devices to support visitors, as in the “Brancusi” exhibition, have strengthened the attractiveness of the place, he estimated.
Exhibitions relocated during the closure
Beaubourg, inaugurated in 1977, will close in progressive stages from March (and until complete closure in September) with a view to a vast renovation from top to bottom including major asbestos removal work Reopening planned for 2030 President of the Pompidou center, Laurent Le Bon defended the option of a total closure, highlighting in particular the structural dilapidation of a building nicknamed at its inauguration, in a climate of controversy. anti-modern, “Our Lady of Piping”, and signed by the trio Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Gianfranco Franchini.
During this long period, it is planned that the museum’s collection and programming will circulate to other cultural institutions, in France and around the world.
