ABSTRACT
The Georges Pompidou National Centre of Art and Culture (‘Pompidou Centre’ or, more simply, for many Parisians, ‘Beaubourg’) is a complex object. It is complex in a literal sense in that the building contains several distinct departments, such as the Public Information Library (BPI), the National Museum of Modern Art (MNAM), and the Centre for Industrial Creation (CCI), as well as being the home of a number of other activities (children’s studio, cinémathèque, meetings/forums, audio-visual unit, publications and periodicals) and having the Institute for Acoustic and Musical Research and Creation (IRCAM) close at hand in a basement in the Place Stravinsky.
