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The Centre Georges Pompidou, displaying and promoting
modern and contemporary art, is far and away the most visited sight
in Paris. Built between 1972 and 1977, the hi-tech though daffy design
has recently begun to age, prompting face-lifts and closures of many
parts of the Centre. Woven into this mêlée of renovation are several good
(though pricey) galleries plus a free, three-tiered library with over
2000 periodicals including English-language newspapers and magazines
from around the world.
A square just to the west attracts street musicians,
Marcel Marceau impersonators and lots of unsavoury types selling
drugs or picking pockets.
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