The Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture was born from the will of President Georges Pompidou to create in the heart of Paris an original cultural institution entirely dedicated to modern and contemporary creation, where visual arts would be side by side with theater, music, cinema, books, speech activities. Its collections include artworks by Gorgio de Chirico, René Magritte, Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock and more contemporary artists such as Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein.