The famous Museum of Contemporary Art of Pompous In Paris, the collection of which is the largest in the world with that of Moma in New York, will close on Monday his doors for five years, during which renovation work will be done.

The public will have one last chance to see masterpieces of artists such as Frida Callo, Salvador Dali and Francis bacon… Free from tomorrow, Friday, 18:00 until Monday at 9pm, as part of a cultural and festive program (with DJ, performances, creation workshops).

Then about the approximately 2,000 works of art which are permanently exposed to a 12,000 -square -foot surface on two levels, will be transferred to warehouses or other Paris museums elsewhere in France or abroad.

“This colossal business has demanded months, even years,” Claire Garnier, manager, explains to the French agency.

Moving huge facilities, such as those of German artist Anselm Kiffer, will require, for example, “to remove local glass windows”, according to her.

The public will, however, be able to continue to visit a part of the collection -which has a total of about 150,000 projects -mainly in the renovated Grand -Palai in Paris where large exhibitions have already been planned.

The Pompidou Center will be fully closed on September 22 with its latest temporary report to carry out colossal asbestos and renovation removal work scheduled by 2030.

A pioneering space for modern and contemporary art around the world, Bobour, as it is also called, was designed by former President of the Republic George Pomidou (1911-1974) as a living meeting place for all forms of art and reception of all the audiences.

With an average of four million visitors each year (ed: Apart from the Covid crisis), the large building designed by architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers has become one of the busiest monuments in Paris.