Centre Georges Pompidou

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The Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou (CNAC) (commonly known as the "Centre Pompidou", or more familiarly "Beaubourg") is a Parisian institution that brings together the same eight-storey futuristic building, instead of the former Beaubourg quarter, the vast public information library (BPI), the first public reading library in Europe, conceived in 1966, at the time of the Plan Calcule, to broaden the choices of reading by the general public through the use of computers and other media, and a vast museum of modern art, which joined the project in 1970 by the will of President Georges Pompidou, a great lover of modern art, to create in the heart of Paris an original cultural institution where the plastic arts would be close to books, drawing, music, living spectacle, activities for young audiences, as well as cinema. Finally inaugurated on 31 January 1977, the Pompidou Centre retains one of the two largest collections of modern and contemporary art in the world, and the first in Europe with 113,675 works by six thousand artists on 1 January 2019. It welcomed 3,273,867 visitors in 2019, an average of...