The idea of the Centre Pompidou mobile was born from the desire to create a museum that would reach out to all audiences and across the entire French territory.
This museum travels all over France, to meet those who never or rarely go to a museum, by offering them a unique experience of cultural decentralization.
Thanks to a nomadic, mobile, demountable, and transportable structure, designed by the architect Patrick Bouchain, masterpieces of modern and contemporary art can be presented everywhere in France.
These works are presented and staged in a geometric and uniformly white universe (covering an area of 650 m²), leaving color and diversity outside.
The mediation approach of the Centre Pompidou mobile, designed by the teams at the Centre Pompidou, offers each audience adapted support. It is an approach specifically designed for people who are little or not at all familiar with modern and contemporary art, so that a successful hour-long visit is enough to make them want to experience the unique connection to the original artwork more often.
- The youngest are accompanied by a mediator equipped with an educational suitcase containing images, quotes, words, and color swatches—all tools to help them see the works and talk about them.
- Teenagers and adults are guided by an actor who offers them a “journey into color.”
- Individual visitors can choose between visits accompanied by a mediator or with the help of a free audio guide in several languages, as well as documentation to assist with the visit. Different paths are proposed for children and adults.
Works can also be borrowed from a local museum or a Regional Contemporary Art Fund (FRAC) to complete the exhibition tour.
The Centre Pompidou mobile began its journey in October 2011 in Chaumont, in the Haute-Marne department. Its travels continued in the Nord-Pas de Calais region in Cambrai, then in Boulogne-sur-Mer.
The current stop is in Libourne (October 24, 2012 to January 20, 2013), which is the autumn stage, then will come Le Havre in early 2013 and Nantes.
Update from 02/27/2013:
Since February 22 and until May 22, 2013, the Centre Pompidou mobile is in Le Havre, in Caucriauville (Le Pré fleuri), near a terminus of the new Le Havre tramway.
If you like the concept, you can discover another project with a similar idea: the MuMo, the mobile contemporary art museum.
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