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Paris, France. Modern and contemporary art museum.
Architect(s) Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and Gianfranco Franchini, opened 1977.
Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou - proper, Pompidou Center, in English
Houses the largest modern art museum in Europe, as well as IRCAM (French: Ircam, Institut de recherche et coordination acoustique/musique, English: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music), an institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially avant garde and electro-acoustical art music.
The name sake, Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou (5 July 1911 – 2 April 1974), was the president of France. He came from a modest family, parents were teachers, studied literature, and was a teacher a public secondary school in Paris. In 1953, Rothschild, a bank, hired him, and eventually appointed him general manager. President Charles de Gaulle hires him to manage a Down Syndrome foundation, and becomes Prime Minister under President Charles de Gaulle from 1962 - 1968. President of France from 1969 - 74. He continued the de Gaulle policy of modernizing France. 1977 Centre Pompidou inaugurates.
His ascent from teacher to banker to politician is impressive, especially with that fact that he was a novice in banking and politics.
Based on the documentary, Pompidou was an avid art collector, and had a keen eye on modern and contemporary art. The story of having a contemporary art hung in his presidential office was quite telling.