Pompidou Centre, arts complex in Paris established on the initiative of the former French president Georges Pompidou. The building in which it is housed, situated on Beaubourg, in the Marais district of Paris, is a celebrated yet controversial modernist structure in steel and glass by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano. It opened in 1977.

The Centre Pompidou houses the National Museum of Modern Art, whose collections are representative of many 20th-century movements, notably Fauvism, Cubism, and Surrealism, with a particular emphasis on French art. There are works by Henri Matisse, André Derain and other Fauvist painters, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and other Cubists, a strong corpus of Surrealist paintings, and works by Alberto Giacometti, Fernand Léger, Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine, and Constantin Brancusi. Later artists represented include Nicolas de Stael, Jean Dubuffet, and Franz Kline, and American Abstract Expressionist artists such as Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and Robert Rauschenberg.

The Centre Pompidou also houses IRCAM (the centre for electronic music associated with the composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, and equipped with a concert hall that presents mainly modern music), a large public reference library, and a centre for industrial design.