Centre Pompidou-Metz
Shigeru Ban’s woven-roof outpost of the Centre Pompidou, showing modern and contemporary art.
Centre Pompidou-Metz is the first regional branch of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, inaugurated in May 2010. Without a permanent collection of its own, it stages ambitious temporary exhibitions drawing on the vast holdings of France's national museum of modern art and on international loans.
The building is known for its sweeping white roof: a woven timber lattice covered with a translucent membrane, inspired by a traditional Chinese hat. Three long rectangular galleries pass through it, with picture windows framing views of Metz Cathedral and the city, and a central spire rising to 77 metres.
Highlights
- Undulating timber-lattice roof by Shigeru Ban
- Gallery windows framing Metz Cathedral
- Large exhibitions drawn from the Centre Pompidou collection
- Free participatory spaces such as the Paper Tube Studio and La Capsule