Statue of Liberty may be getting some company from French museum
- Centre Pompidou x Jersey City, expected to open in 2024, would be the Paris museum’s first venture in North America
- Jersey City would pay up to US$6 million for Paris’ Pompidou Centre’s exhibitions, projects and educational programming
The Statue of Liberty could be getting some company from her native France.
State, local and museum officials on Friday announced a planned partnership between Paris’ Pompidou Centre and New Jersey’s Jersey City to transform a gutted industrial building into a satellite museum in the heart of a transport hub for thousands of commuters that is not far from where Lady Liberty stands in New York Harbour.
Centre Pompidou x Jersey City, expected to open in 2024, would be the French museum’s first venture in North America, said Centre Pompidou President Serge Lasvignes. It currently has sites in Metz, France; Shanghai, China; Malaga, Spain; and Brussels, Belgium.
The satellite would be completed in time for when the Paris museum, which houses more than 120,000 modern works of art in its unique architecture of exposed coloured pipes and air ducts, undergoes a major renovation.
While the French would provide the art and expertise, Jersey City would provide the cash.
