About the museum
The story of the Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou in Paris opened in 1977 in Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers' building, famous for wearing its pipes, ducts and escalators on the outside. It houses the Musée National d'Art Moderne.
It holds one of the largest collections of modern and contemporary art in the world, from Matisse, Picasso and Kandinsky to Duchamp and today's artists.
The collection
The Musée National d'Art Moderne holds more than 100,000 works and is the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe. It covers the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from Fauvism and Cubism to today.
Its strengths include Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Léger, Kandinsky, Brancusi's reconstructed studio, Dada and Surrealism, and post-war art by Yves Klein and the Nouveau Réalistes.
At ArtLogia you can order 48 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 15 artists led by Wassily Kandinsky, Henri Matisse and Suzanne Valadon.
- paintings to order
- 48
- artists
- 15
- art movements
- 4
- years covered
- 1890–1952
The building
Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers won the competition in 1971 with a building turned inside out: its structure, pipes and ducts are on the outside, colour-coded by function, and a glazed escalator climbs the façade above the sloping Piazza.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
The Centre Pompidou closed in 2025 for a renovation planned to last several years; check the museum's website for partner exhibitions.
