The colors of these exposed complex pipes are regular. Air conditioning pipes are blue, water pipes are green, power pipes are yellow and escalators are red.
Despite these extreme controversies, Pompidou National Cultural and Art Center has attracted more than10.50 billion visitors since its opening more than 20 years ago. The "public reference library" is not an old-fashioned library in the traditional sense at all. It has 300,000 contemporary books, 2,400 periodicals, 200,000 slides, 65,438+05,000 microfilms, 65,438+00,000 records, and various movies, videos, maps and tapes. All the facilities in the museum are open, and readers can browse open-shelf books at will; You can also watch movies and videos introducing literature, art, science and technology and folk customs of various countries at will through the video recorder; Music lovers can put on headphones and enjoy the records of their choice freely. There are magnifying glasses and photocopiers everywhere in the library, and readers can use them to consult microfilm and copy materials at any time. The library also has a language study room with 40 small rooms and related textbooks and materials in 40 languages, where people can listen to recordings, read textbooks and choose various languages. The National Museum of Modern Art is also different from those old art galleries, focusing on the word "modern" and introducing various western plastic arts since the 20th century. Including 2,000 works of cubism, abstraction, surrealism, structuralism, conceptual art and popular art, the museum collection is also displayed in a modern way: a main line arranges the representative works of various art schools in chronological order, and there are many small showrooms around it to introduce the works of a certain school and a certain writer, so that the audience can not only understand the general situation of modern western art, but also conduct in-depth research on a certain school or writer who is interested. There are also movable shelves in the museum with works that have not been exhibited. At the press of a button, these automatic shelves can display the collections that the audience needs but are not on display in front of people.
The "Music-Acoustics Coordination Research Institute" is built underground next to the building to avoid noise interference. Its main function is to enable musicians to make use of modern equipment and technology to create. In addition, it is also engaged in the development of new musical instruments and various audio equipment.
"National Pompidou Cultural Center" is not only novel, unique and modern in internal design, decoration, equipment and exhibits, but also novel, unique and modern in external structure. Contrary to traditional architectural art, this museum invites all columns, stairs and pipes that have never been seen before to leave the room for internal use. The whole building looks like a huge chemical plant with colorful pipes and steel bars. In those huge transparent cylindrical pipes, escalators are busy welcoming tourists. At the beginning, this condemned "giant monster" has been accepted by Parisians and gradually loved by the French.
If the Louvre Museum represents the ancient civilization of France, then the National Pompidou Cultural Center is the symbol of modern Paris.