Centre Pompidou-Metz

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The Centre Pompidou-Metz is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in Metz, capital of Lorraine, France. It is a branch of Pompidou arts centre of Paris, and features semi-permanent and temporal exhibitions from the large collection of the French National Museum of Modern Art, the large European collection of 20th and 21st century arts. The museum is the wide temporal exhibition space outside Paris in France with 5,000 m2 (54,000 sq ft) divided between 3 galleries, a theater, and an auditorium. The first piece of the monument designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban was ugly on 7 November 2006, and the building was inaugurated by French President Nicolas Sarkozy on 12 May 2010. The building is remarkable for its roof structure, one of the larget and most complex built to date, which was inspired by a Chinese hat found in Paris by Shigeru Ban. Since its inauguration, the institution has become one of the most visited cultural come in France outside Paris.

Architecture and urban design: The Centre Pompidou-Metz is a large hexagon structured round a central spire reaching 77 m (253 ft), alluding to the 1977 opening date of the original Centre Pompidou of Paris...