Regional action

The creation of the Centre Pompidou in 1977 marked a milestone in the development of museums opening to new audiences. In keeping with its initial mission, the Centre Pompidou seeks endlessly to broaden its audiences and thus share modern and contemporary art as widely as possible.
In addition to its presence through the Centre Pompidou Metz (2010), the Centre Pompidou Málaga (2015), the Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Brussels (May 2018), the West Bund art museum in Shanghai (2019) and its major international exhibitions, the Centre Pompidou also seeks to strengthen and perpetuate its action on a national level.

To mark its 40^th anniversary in 2017, the Centre Pompidou organised sixty-five events throughout France, in collaboration with seventy-five local cultural players (museums, art centres, theatres and festivals, etc.). The Centre Pompidou decided to maintain this momentum and build lasting relations with cultural players located across France. The aim is to develop actions to attract audiences who do not have a direct access to culture.
The Centre Pompidou has thus engaged in a strengthened regional programme, notably via nomadic happenings created by artists, events, nomadic exhibitions and workshops for young audiences or the co-creation of new cultural venues.

Regional outreach

The roll-out of actions in Ile-de-France is accompanied by an equally important national presence. The Centre Pompidou is constantly exploring new forms of hybrid, innovative and durable partnerships with local authorities in search of new channels for dissemination and collaboration.
Find out more about some of our flagship projects below.

The Centre Pompidou-Metz

As the most visited modern & contemporary art centre in France, outside of the Paris region, the Centre Pompidou Metz is an outstanding example of this regional foothold. An opening to all audiences and the intersection of fields are at the heart of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, with projects designed for school-goers and more remote audiences, collaborations with activist organisations, with Metz hospital, or actions in rural areas of the region, in a blend of live performance and exhibitions.

Centre Pompidou-Metz website

Centre Pompidou Francilien – fabrique de l’art

The Centre Pompidou is building a new conservation and creation centre in the Ile-de-France region.

With 30,000m² of space and designed as a model for innovative arts institutions, it will be:

a centre of excellence for the conservation and restoration of the works in its collection;
a venue for cultural dissemination and creation strongly anchored in its territory.

The new venue will open in the spring of 2027 in Massy.

In anticipation of its opening, and in collaboration with local stakeholders—cultural, academic, educational, and community-based—the Centre Pompidou has, since 2019, developed a programme that reaches across the Île-de-France region. This initiative presents works from the collection, circulates educational tools, encourages engagement with new artistic practices, and forges research and training partnerships with the academic world.

More information on the project

Expertise and Consultancy

Driven by its commitment to initiating, supporting, encouraging, and facilitating projects, the Centre Pompidou develops consulting and cultural advisory services for partners seeking to benefit from its experience and expertise.

Co-designing new cultural spaces:

Des enfants jouent à mille formes © Direction de la communication, ville de Clermont-Ferrand

mille formes
A network of art initiation centres for children aged 0–6

The mille formes centres are multidisciplinary spaces of artistic exploration designed for early childhood and their accompanying adults. These venues encourage art discovery through play, manipulation, sensory experience, and hands-on creation. Visitors can engage with interactive exhibitions, take part in workshops, and attend dance or music events, among others. The programming spans a wide range of artistic disciplines and is developed by and with contemporary artists from fields such as visual arts, performing arts, graphic design, music, and culinary design.

These centres also serve as resource hubs for issues relating to art and early childhood, and are open to professionals from all backgrounds.

mille formes Clermont-Ferrand

Inaugurated in 2019, the first centre has already welcomed over 35,000 visitors and hosted 150 artistic offerings.

Its gallery, studio, agora with a small stage, mini-museum, 0–2-year-old area, first-time sessions, and café/kitchen were all designed by Laure Jaffuel in collaboration with architect Sharmily Guyot.

Watch the opening day video report (2 min)

Website

mille formes Montpellier

A new 1,000 m² space, inaugurated on 6 February 2026, was designed by artist and architect Sarah de.Gouy and is located in the heart of the city.

Spanning two levels connected by a slide-staircase, it includes: two exhibition galleries (for 0–2 and 2–6 age groups), a studio, a room for performing arts, a room for reading, a parenting support area.

Inaugural programme

Professional Training

As a leading institution in the field of cultural mediation, the Centre Pompidou supports local authorities by sharing its expertise and know-how.
Its professional training programmes are tailored to the specific contexts of each beneficiary. They aim to strengthen the skills of all professionals involved—from decision-makers to their teams—in support of each community’s cultural policy development.

Training offers for local authorities

Loans and deposits of works

The Centre Pompidou’s territorial outreach is exemplified by its active policy of promoting public collections under its care by presenting them beyond the walls of the Musée National d’Art Moderne / Centre de Création Industrielle (Mnam/Cci). This ambition has made the Centre Pompidou the world’s leading lender of artworks.

In 2023, just over 2,200 works were loaned within France, and approximately 5,350 works are currently on deposit in various institutions in Paris and across the regions.

View the map of loans in France and worldwide

Travelling Museums

Le Centre Pompidou mobile à Chaumont, 2011 © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Philippe Migeat

The Centre Pompidou has developed travelling museum projects to reach new audiences and territories.

From 2011 to 2013, the Centre Pompidou mobile—a large demountable pavilion designed by architect Patrick Bouchain—brought masterpieces of modern and contemporary art to regions with limited access to cultural offerings (Aubagne, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Cambrai, Chaumont, Libourne) and, in particular, to audiences furthest removed from cultural life.

In 2022, the MuMo (Mobile Museum, founded in 2011 by Ingrid Brochard) partnered with the Centre Pompidou, with the support of the Art Explora Foundation and the French Ministry of Culture, to present thematic exhibitions based on the Centre’s collection in a new travelling museum truck. The initiative has been touring various regions of France for 40 weeks per year, and is now in its third consecutive year.

Mediation for young audiences

The Centre Pompidou places great importance on young audiences and encourages their awareness of modern and contemporary creation through three specially dedicated spaces: the Children’s Workshop, the Galerie des Enfants and Studio 13/16. A dedicated programme designed to capture and hold the attention of young audiences transmits key concepts and forges a relationship with art and creation from the earliest age.

The Centre Pompidou exports this know-how by proposing travelling exhibitions and workshops that can be set up in a variety of environments. Whatever the domain explored, each proposal is based on everyday experience and a sensory approach in order to develop children's awareness and facilitate encounters with today's creations.