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The Stravinsky Fountain in front of the Centre Pompidou, Paris

No. 21 Top 100 Most Visited Art Museums 2025 · 2,665,000 visitors in 2025

Centre Pompidou

Paris, France · City guide: Paris

Paris's inside-out icon of modern art, closed for renovation until 2030, with its collection on show elsewhere.

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Overview

The Centre Pompidou is No. 21 in The Art Newspaper's survey of the world's most visited art museums, with 2,665,000 visitors in 2025, down 17% on 2024. Designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, with its pipes and escalators on the outside, it opened in 1977 and houses the Musée National d'Art Moderne, the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe.

The building closed completely to the public on 22 September 2025 for a major renovation, and is due to reopen in 2030. In the meantime, works from the collection are shown at partner venues in Paris, across France and abroad, including the Centre Pompidou-Metz.

The Centre Pompidou seen from above among the rooftops of Paris
The Centre Pompidou seen from above among the rooftops of Paris. Photo: Alf van Beem, CC0, source

Best time to visit

The building is closed until 2030. Check the official website for exhibitions of the collection at other venues.

Highlights & collections

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    Renovation

    The Paris building is closed until its planned reopening in 2030; check the official website for the latest news.

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    The collection elsewhere

    Exhibitions drawn from the collection appear at venues such as the Grand Palais in Paris and the Centre Pompidou-Metz.

  • 3

    Stravinsky Fountain

    Next to the building, Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely's colourful moving sculptures play in a pool.

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    The building

    Its exposed, colour-coded pipes and the escalator tube on the facade made it one of the most famous buildings of the 1970s.

Getting there

The Centre Pompidou is in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement. The nearest metro station is Rambuteau (Line 11); Châtelet–Les Halles is also nearby.

Visiting tips

Opening
Closed for renovation from 22 September 2025; reopening is planned for 2030.
Currency
Euro (EUR). Cards, including contactless, are accepted almost everywhere.
Visa & entry
France is in the Schengen Area. Many visitors, including citizens of the US, Canada, the UK and Australia, can stay up to 90 days in any 180-day period without a visa. The EU's Entry/Exit System (EES) now records non-EU travellers' entries and exits at the border, and the ETIAS travel authorisation is due to follow. Check the official EU site travel-europe.europa.eu and your own government's travel advice before you go.

Official information: Centre Pompidou (official website). Check opening hours, prices and entry rules there before you go.

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