A Spanish outpost of Paris’s Centre Pompidou will continue to operate through 2034 under a new deal inked with the city of Málaga last week.
The space, formally known as the Centre Pompidou Málaga, measures 65,000 square feet. It opened to the public in 2015 and has welcomed more than 3 million visitors since then, according to the Centre Pompidou.
Under this new arrangement, the museum will remain open for 10 more years. Laurent Le Bon, president of the Centre Pompidou, called it an “immense pleasure” to be able to keep the Málaga museum running for another decade.
Per the Art Newspaper, the Centre Pompidou will put nearly $3 million into the running the Málaga satellite annually between 2025 and 2029, then around $3.4 million annually between 2030 and 2034.
The Málaga satellite is one of several run by the Centre Pompidou, whose Paris museum is now augmented by international spaces on multiple continents. Other satellites are currently operating in Brussels and Shanghai; future ones are planned for Saudi Arabia and South Korea.
Recently, another planned Centre Pompidou satellite, in Jersey City, faced an unexpected roadblock when the state of New Jersey pulled funding following backlash from Republican politicians. That museum’s future is now in question.
Meanwhile, the Centre Pompidou’s Paris home base is set to go through big changes of its own, closing for five years starting in 2025 for a large-scale renovation. Some prominent figures of the French art scene have denounced the closure, arguing that such a prolonged shuttering is not necessary.
