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Centre Pompidou to pop up in Shanghai. Paris Modern art museum in negotiations to open space in West Bund cultural district.

Plans are well advanced for Paris’s Centre Pompidou to set up a branch in Shanghai’s West Bund cultural district, The Art Newspaper understands.

According to a number of sources, the project is being driven by the district government of Xuhui and the Shanghai-based West Bund Development Group, which builds and manages real estate in the area. 

Xuhui has already invested Rmb 20bn (around $3bn) in turning a former industrial area into a 11km-long “cultural corridor” on the Huangpu river. It is planning an ambitious series of museums and other landmark projects, such as a theatre, music hall and Imax cinema.

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