FRANCE’S NATIONAL CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTS TO MOVE IN 2020
France’s Centre National des Arts Plastique, whose collection includes close to one hundred thousand works, has announced plans to move into a new space in 2020. CNAP is run by the Ministry of Culture and Communication and, since 1982, has been charged with “supporting and promoting art of various media.” Each year, CNAP lends a large percentage of its holdings to public and private museums in France as well as abroad.
According to Le Monde, CNAP has an annual budget of just over $10 million, and it currently stores its collection across three sites on the outskirts of Paris. Its new location will be in Pantin, an industrial neighborhood northeast of Paris that is also home to the Centre National de la Danse and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. With a price tag of over $18 million, the approximately 280,000-square-foot space will be able to accommodate all of CNAP’s holdings.
