The Centre Pompidou will close on Monday for a five-year renovation.

(ANSA-AFP) - PARIS, SEPTEMBER 20 - The Centre Pompidou, iconic Parisian building with multi-colored tubular architecture that It houses the largest museum of modern art in the world, along with the MoMa in New York will close its doors on Monday for five years renovation. The monument, built on a revolutionary project by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers and opened in 1977, with five million visitors in 2024, extends over nine levels accessible to the public via escalators (120,000 m²), which were gradually emptied. Frida Kahlo, Dalí, Bacon, Duchamp... the works of great artists have been moved from permanent collections, which housed approximately 2,000 of the 150,000 works from his collection. The public library, which welcomed thousands every day of students and regulars, has moved to another branch in the capital waiting for its reopening in 2030. Monday, the last day of opening, the center will remain open from 11:00 to 23:00, allowing those who wish to visit the German artist's final exhibition for free contemporary Wolfgang Tillmans, who ranges between photography, video, music, and publishing. (ANSA-AFP).