Centre Pompidou - Metz
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| Centre Pompidou - Metz | |
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| Architectural style | Modern, Culture and Leisure |
| Town or city | Metz |
| Country | France |
| Construction started | 7 november 2006 |
| Completed | 2010 |
| Cost | 60,73 million Euro |
| Technical details | |
| Size | 77 meters |
| Design and construction | |
| Client | Agglomeration community of Metz Métropole |
| Architect | Shigeru Ban & Jean de Gastines |
| Architecture firm | Shigeru Ban Architects Europe |
The Centre Pompidou Metz is a museum of modern and contemporary art. It is located in Metz, France. It exhibits sculptures, modern and contemporary paintings and graphic art.
The architecture of the building is inspired by a traditional Chinese hat. The carpentry is an innovative assembly composed of sixteen kilometers of wood.
Inaugural exhibition of 2010[change]
Some elements of the inaugural exhibition were borrow by the Centre Georges Pompidou of Paris, especially:
- La Femme à la guitare, Georges Braque,
- La Tristesse du Roi, Henri Matisse,
- L'Aubade, Nu couché et musicien, Pablo Picasso,
- Le Violon d'Ingres, photographie, Man Ray,
- La Maison tropicale, architectural prototype conceive by Jean Prouvé.
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The structure
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The wood carpentry
