Claim: Musée National d'Art Moderne can be found in the Beaubourg area.

Centre Georges Pompidou -LRB- -LSB- sɑ̃tʁ ʒɔʁʒ pɔ̃pidu -RSB- , commonly shortened to Centre Pompidou and also known as the Pompidou Centre in English , is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris , near Les Halles , rue Montorgueil , and the Marais . It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano , along with Gianfranco Franchini .   It houses the Bibliothèque publique d'information -LRB- Public Information Library -RRB- , a vast public library ; the Musée National d'Art Moderne , which is the largest museum for modern art in Europe ; and IRCAM , a centre for music and acoustic research . Because of its location , the Centre is known locally as Beaubourg -LRB- -LSB- bobuʁ -RSB- -RRB- . It is named after Georges Pompidou , the President of France from 1969 to 1974 who commissioned the building , and was officially opened on 31 January 1977 by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing . , the Centre Pompidou has had over 180 million visitors since 1977 and more than 5,209,678 visitors in 2013 , including 3,746,899 for the museum .   The sculpture Horizontal by Alexander Calder , a free-standing mobile that is 7.6 m tall , was placed in front of the Centre Pompidou in 2012 .