It’s official: the fourth international branch of the Center Pompidou will open its doors in the United States, in Jersey City, in the New York metropolis. The development of this new cultural and artistic center should be completed in early 2024.
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After Metz, Malaga, Brussels and Shanghai, the Centre Pompidou is exported across the Atlantic. The Parisian museum announced, on June 4, that its next international experience would take place in the city of Jersey City, in the New Jersey. This city of 250,000 inhabitants is located just in front of New York, on the other side of the Hudson River. This proximity to the metropolis, without being located in the heart of the “big apple”, will allow the center to attract different audiences, in particular thanks to the Journal Square regional station, through which nearly 8 million travelers pass every day. years. The Center Pompidou x Jersey City should be accessible to the public in early 2024.
Iconic place
The location of the first Centre Pompidou from the Americas was not chosen at random. This new museum will be installed in the Pathside Building, an emblematic building in the heart of the city. Built in 1912 to house offices, the building is part of local history, and is located on Journal Square, the old cultural and economic center of the city, currently in search of a new lease of life. the Pathside Building also offers an area of nearly 5400 m² but also a structure that makes it very flexible. Thanks to its advantageous characteristics, the Centre Pompidou of Jersey City will be able, by transforming spaces at a lower cost, to concentrate on its primary mission: education.
For those in charge of the museum, it is indeed a question of creating a ” artistic and cultural laboratory of a new genre », Can we read in a press release. All the actors, from the president of the Center Pompidou, Serge Lasvignes, to the governor of the State of New Jersey, including the mayor of Jersey City, said they were delighted by this new step. The renovation of the building will be led by the architectural firm New Yorker OMA and should allow an opening in the first months of the year 2024.
The Pathside Building, built in 1912, is in the heart of Jersey City and is part of its heritage © OMA
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The architectural firm OMA will oversee the renovation and development of this emblematic building © OMA
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With a surface area of 5,400 m², the Center Pompidou x Jersey City will have great freedom in planning and welcoming visitors © OMA
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The museum will be spread over 4 floors and will put education at the center of its concerns © OMA
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The ambition of the actors of the project is to make it a leading cultural reference at regional and international level © OMA
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