(23 Sep 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris, France – 22 September 2025
1. Wide exterior of Paris Pompidou Centre with people walking down the Piazza towards museum entrance
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeanne Brun, Deputy Director of Centre Pompidou: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY HSOT 3-4++
“It’s definitely a big day for us, for the public today, I’d even say it’s a historical day as we’re closing the Centre Pompidou, the entire building for five years. So if you’re asking how I feel, I feel a bit sad, I mean maybe a lot sad today like a lot of our public (visitors) but also I feel like our team has the responsibility to work more in the five years to come to open a new and safe and interesting Pompidou in five years.”
3. Wide track of fourth floor of Centre Pompidou with bare walls
4. Various of empty museum
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Paris, France – 17 March 2025
5. (STILL) Pigeons fly by the Pompidou Center, which is set to close later this year for a five-year renovation (Image ID: 25076632176711)
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Paris, France – 22 September 2025
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Alexandre Aumis, Centre Pompidou Director of Building and Security: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT 7-8++
“The Centre Pompidou houses the third largest collection of artworks (in the world) which is about 140,000 works. 6000 of those are on loan, either in France or abroad. The permanent collections – so that’s level four and five of the museum – are already moved elsewhere in our storage facility. And some of the works that are still on level three are being moved as we speak, and that should be done by the end of the month.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris, France – 17 March 2025
7. (STILL) View of the Pompidou Center, which is set to close later this year for a five-year renovation (Image ID: 25076632171901)
8. (STILL) View of the Pompidou Center, which is set to close later this year for a five-year renovation
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Paris, France – 22 September 2025
9. Various of ground floor with ticket hall known as “the Forum” level
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeanne Brun, Deputy Director of Centre Pompidou++ SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT11++
“So when you’ll get in to the Pompidou in 2030, you’ll go through the Forum (ground floor) as of today but then if you go underground you’ll find an entirely new space: the Agora that will distribute a lot of spaces like cinemas, places for performing arts, for exhibitions. And we’ve expanded those spaces.”
11. Various exteriors Centre Pompidou
STORYLINE:
A red escalator snakes down the side of the Pompidou Center.
But time has run out to visit great arts institution.
It has shut its doors to the public this autumn with renovation works starting at the end of the year.
Inside, preparations are already well underway, with rooms emptied out ahead of construction.
The five year renovation will see the removal of asbestos from all facades and enhance fire safety.
Several levels, including the ground floor, will be completely reconfigured and a new level will be dedicated to children.
It’s an emotional moment for Jeanne Brun, Deputy Director of Centre Pompidou.
Even as the escalators are paused and rooms are bare, the Pompidou’s offbeat charm persists.
Initially nick-named “Notre Dame of the Pipes” by its critics when it opened in 1977, the Pompidou Centre eventually won over the hearts of Parisians and tourists alike, becoming one of the city’s most photographed monuments.
It’s also become a home for a vast amount of artwork.
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