The Pompidou Center will create a moving museum Nov 09, 2009

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The Pompidou Center in Paris is planning to create a moving museum which will tour different regions of France, informs the Associated Press. According to the concept of Alain Seban, the director of the Pompidou Center, the museum will "bring art to the people, in order to awaken their desire for beauty and style". It is expected the museum will be hosted in a special tent, similar to a circus tent. The project manager and architect of the tent is Patrick Bouchin, a specialist who already presented the blueprints of the construction, consisting of several triangular blocks. According to the architect the structure will permit easy mounting and demounting of the building, in any open space, in a relatively condensed period of time.

Inside the tent there will be a special exhibit center. All the paintings will be placed in protective display casings made from glass and plastic frames. The displays will be monitored for temperature and humidity consistency; and the cost of the project is estimated at nearly 3 million Euros. According to Seban, the route of the museum tour has not been decided and approved just yet, however, its main checkpoints should be located in the rural regions of France and the less wealthy suburban regions of the large French cities – places where the people are generally cut off from art.

The Pompidou center is also planning to allocated around 15 paintings to the moving museum, to create its permanent exhibition. Among these paintings are the works of Picasso and Matisse, as well as the sculpture of Martial Raysse, called "America, America". As Seban explains, the museum will be able to depart to tour France as early as the end of 2010, if it finds sponsorship or obtain financing. IT is planned that the moving museum of the Pompidou Center will tour up to three places per year, staying for three months in each.