Shuttle transportation to Museum of Modern Art of Paris

History and visit of the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris

The National Museum of Modern Art is a museum for the presentation of contemporary arts and modern arts dating from the 20th and 21st centuries. It is located on Place Georges Pompidou in the city of Paris. The entire establishment was inaugurated in 1947. It preserves and exhibits around 98,500 works of art by 6,275 artists. It covers an area of ​​18,500 square meters of permanent and temporary exhibition rooms, but also 28,000 square meters of places attached to the museum. The number of visitors to this museum continues to increase every year, for example in 2011 it had 3,613,076 visitors while in 2012 it had received 4,302,247 visitors. The National Museum of Modern Art is spread over two floors of a building. Modern arts are presented on the 5th floor while contemporary arts are presented on the 4th floor. It adopts an architectural style that incorporates industrial elements. Compared to other museums, its originality lies in its decor and its presentations which cover several disciplines. The collections of this museum are considered the most magnificent, but also the most complete in the world. Apart from these exhibition galleries, this establishment has theaters and cinemas, an encyclopedic library, conference rooms, educational workshops and a music research center. He is recognized worldwide for these works and these ways of presenting them. Modern works attached to it are replaced every eighteen months, while contemporary works are replaced frequently. The National Museum of Modern Art took on the function of the Luxembourg Museum. The creation of the Musée de Luxembourg was made in 1818 by Louis XVIII. It was intended to receive works that will be transferred to the Louvre Museum. The narrowness of the Musée de Luxembourg in relation to the works it housed led to the project of building another museum in 1932. Construction work on the new museum began in 1934. It was built on the site where was the carpet factory of the soap factory. At one point, it was named Palais de Tokyo because of a throwback to French art. It was built for the international exhibition of 1937. The planned opening of this museum was not on the right date because of delays in the completion works, but also due to the outbreak of war. It has been located at the Center Georges Pompidou since 1977. The National Museum of Modern Art initially received donations from artists such as: Picasso, Chagall or Delaunay. He also obtained donations from workshop funds like those of Brancusi or Kandinsky and contributions from collectors. It differs from other museums by these special links with the artists or their heirs. This relationship allows us to know the artistic journey of an artist. It is part of the Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture and joined the Center for Industrial Creation in 1992. Its function is to conserve, restore and show the public modern and contemporary arts. He thus supports contemporary invention in all these states. It has a large number of collections that cover the modern period from 1905 to 1960 and the contemporary period from 1960.