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The Centre National d´Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, or simply Centre Pompidou, is a museum designed by the young architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers.
In the same building you can find the National Modern Art Museum, the IRCAM, the Musical Investigation Centre and the library that can hold no less than two thousand people and it´s a completely public place.
The centre, which was inaugurated in 1977, has one of the most complete modern art collections in the world and it´s compared to the Tate Modern in London and the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York.
The place has that name because it was built during the mandate of the President Georges Pompidou who died before they finished the building and it was his successor, Valéry Giscard d´Estaing, who inaugurated it.
In 1997 and 1999 it was rehabilitated and it recently opened again in 2000 and, from that moment, it became one of the most visited places in France because no less than six million people visit it every year.
Centre National d´Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou is one of the places you can´t not visit in this European country.
You can rent apartments in Paris and not let this chance escape.
