The Centre Pompidou, Paris’s top museum for modern and contemporary art, has officially set out plans to close for five years starting in 2025 while it undergoes a €262 million ($283.6 million) renovation.
Although the museum had previously announced a long-term shuttering, it was expected to begin this year and last only through 2027. Now, the museum has lengthened its closure period by a year.
The new timeline also means the museum will not reopen in time for its 50th anniversary in 2027.
— ARTnews
Details on the extent of the renovations remain thin but reportedly will entail asbestos removal and upgrades to the high-tech marvel’s highly-visible mechanical systems, heating, and AC. The museum will thus operate out of its forthcoming satellites in Brussels and Jersey City, New Jersey, designed by noAarchitecten, EM2N, and Sergison Bates (Belgium) and OMA (United States), respectively, beginning in 2025.
Centre Pompidou President Serge Lasvignes said previously, “This work guarantees a future for the Centre Pompidou. It is essential if it is to remain a world icon of modernity and architecture.” Meanwhile, a new retrospective exhibition of Norman Foster (who told the New York Times he was on hand at its 1977 opening in support of his friend Richard Rogers) debuted Wednesday and will remain on view until August 7th.
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