The Pompidou Center welcomed 22% more visitors in 2024

The museum attributes the increase in attendance to the highlights that marked 2024, it detailed in a press release.

More than 390.000 visitors discovered the retrospective dedicated to Brancusi, considered the father of modern sculpture.

And since September, some 512.000 people have wandered through the "Surrealism" exhibition, which celebrates the centenary of the movement born with André Breton's Manifesto. It remains visible until January 13.

Other cultural events also brought the public to the door, such as "Comics on all floors" and its various versions or the tribute paid to Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (winner of a Palme d'Or at Cannes in 2010) through his films, a dedicated exhibition and an augmented reality performance, the Centre Pompidou said.

Digital innovation, through online content or artificial intelligence-based devices to support visitors, as in the "Brancusi" exhibition, have strengthened the attractiveness of the place, he said.

The Louvre, Orsay: Parisian museums must in turn reveal their attendance figures for 2024 next week.

As for the Centre Pompidou, also called Beaubourg, the 2025 vintage promises to be marked by the prologue of a vast project, the cost of which is estimated at 262 million euros for the State.

Inaugurated in 1977, it must gradually close between March and September, until 2030, for asbestos removal and renovation work, from top to bottom.

During these five years of closure, it is planned that its collection and its programming will circulate in other cultural institutions, in France and around the world.