Centre Pompidou Francilien - fabrique de l'art

Press release

Centre Pompidou is creating a cutting-edge facility for the management and conservation of its collections: Centre Pompidou Francilien - fabrique de l’art.

This new site, which is scheduled to open in autumn 2026, brings together for the first time the complex work of conservation and management of heritage artworks on one hand, and on the other, the goals of openness and cultural programming at the local scale and beyond.

Centre Pompidou Francilien has been designed as a hybrid project: a professional site of conservation, research, and technical and scientific expertise, as well as a cultural site, offering the public new ways to access modern art and contemporary creation.

This dual mission was part of the rationale behind the choice of Massy out of nine potential sites.

A forward-looking arts institution must be open to the city and accessible to as many people many as possible. This has been the ambition of Centre Pompidou Francilien – fabrique de l’art from the outset.

As a conservation centre, it will provide storage for the collections of Centre Pompidou and the Musée National Picasso-Paris – representing almost 150,000 and 5,000 works respectively – as well as workshops that meet the highest international standards, making the site a place of excellence for collection management and conservation.

As a cultural hub that is open to the public, it will welcome contemporary creation in all its forms, and offer a rich program aimed at all audiences, from Île-de-France and around the world.

Deeply rooted in its local area, open to the most diverse walks of life, a place to live, meet, learn and discover, this unique venue will be home to a daily celebration of the arts in unrivalled proximity to the works and at the intersection between disciplines.