The Pompidou Centre in Paris, one of the world's top modern art museums, will shut down for refurbishment for five years from 2025, France's culture minister said earlier this week – one year longer than previously announced. The renovation work will include the removal of asbestos from the building and is estimated to cost more than €260 million.
One of the French capital's most popular cultural attractions, the Pompidou Centre houses work by artists from Pablo Picasso to Wassily Kandinsky and welcomed more than three million visitors last year.
