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It is located in Paris and is housed in the Centre Pompidou in the 4th arrondissement of the city.

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It is among the most visited art museums in the world and one of the largest for modern and contemporary art. Imagined as early as by Auguste Perret to replace the old Palais du Trocadero , the construction of a museum of modern art was officially decided in in the western wing of the Palais de Tokyo.


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Although due to open in , construction was eventually interrupted by the war; following the nomination of its first Chief Conservator in September , the museum partially opened in with only a third of the collection brought back from some national collection caches hidden in the province. In , then housed in the Palais de Tokyo , its collection was dramatically increased by its first director, Jean Cassou , thanks to his special relationship with many prominent artists or their families, such as Picasso and Braque.

With the creation of the Centre Pompidou , the museum moved to its current location in The museum has the second largest collection of modern and contemporary art in the world, after the Museum of Modern Art in New York, with more than , works of art by 6, artists from 90 countries since Fauvism in These works include painting, sculpture, drawing, print, photography, cinema, new media, architecture, and design.

The Atelier Brancusi is located in its own building adjacent to the museum.

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The works displayed in the museum often change in order to show to the public the variety and depth of the collection. Many major temporary exhibitions of modern and contemporary art have taken place on a separate floor the 6th over the years, among them many one-person exhibitions. Robert Delaunay , Paysage au disque , Would you like to tell us about a lower price?


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