Le Centre George Pompidou

Feeling very much like dedicated tourists, Lucy and I decided we could manage ANOTHER stop on our first exploring day. Luckily, the Centre George Pompidou was very close to the restaurant:


Finished in 1977, the Centre houses an extensive collection of modern art in a building designed to ‘turn architecture inside out’. Stairs, elevators and pipes are all on the outside, and are colour coded according to function: yellow for electricity, red for transport, blue for air, and green for water. It is a fun building, but not that shocking because it looks so much like the QEII hydroslide.

Once inside we explored various corners. I don’t remember what the art is all called, so shall just show you the pictures. I liked the first piece here because it takes bravery to make enormous wool kebabs and call them art. The rest I liked for being colourful and well made:







We spent over an hour in here, and it was very pleasant.

Having had a long and full day, we took a gentle stroll back through quietly commercial back streets to our hotel.