The Centre Pompidou Review

The Pompidou Art Center is one of the must-see museums in Paris. It feels quite similar to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In late January 2017, Paris was in the harsh winter, the outdoor temperature was minus six degrees. We arrived in Pompidou early in the morning. The museum had not opened yet. It was surprising that there was a long queue in front of the museum. There was a special exhibition that Parisians liked. The audience with tickets and the audience without tickets are in different lines. The queue without tickets is much longer. Fortunately, I have Museum Pass and queue with tickets. It took more than 10 minutes to enter the museum and queue up for elevator rides after security checks. Those who watch the special exhibition take the direct elevator to the 6th floor. If we look at the museum's original collection like this, we will go to the 4th floor. Most people go to special exhibitions. There aren't many people in the original exhibition hall of the museum. They can just calm down and take a slow look. The exhibition hall displays a variety of works of art, sculptures, paintings, photography, furniture, magazines, films... Many things of behavioral art are hard to understand, but they open people's eyes. People engaged in art should get a lot of inspiration here. There are many animal sculptures on the open-air platform outside the third and fourth floors, but now the doors leading to the open-air platform are locked, perhaps because of the cold weather, they are not open. There's a great restaurant on the sixth floor, overlooking Paris at mealtime. There's a lot of people queuing for dinner. Looking at the menu, the price is at least three times as high as that of the restaurant outside, so we have to stop. The first floor is a bookstore and souvenir shop. There are many art books in the bookstore. There is a platform between the first and second floors for fast food and a long queue. No special exhibition day, Pompidou should not have so many people!