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The Georges Pompidou Center, inaugurated on 31 January 1977 by Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, was born out of the desire of President Georges Pompidou (passionate about culture) in the 1960s to create a multicultural center in the heart of Paris, dedicated to the creation of Art modern, contemporary, with the establishment of a library to develop French cultural and artistic influence.
To make this ambitious project a reality, the Italian architect Renzo Piano and the English architect Richard Rogers will be chosen from 681 international projects. Each of them is awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prize, the world’s highest architectural award.
The Georges Pompidou Center, is the home to one of the two largest collections of modern and contemporary art in the world, with the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tate Modern in London. The collections, which include over 120,000 works by 6,396 artists, are the largest in Europe and the second-largest in the world.
After 40 years of existence, it has a record attendance with 3.5 million visitors and is in the Top 3 of the Paris museums, the busiest, in 2018.
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