Portrait of the mayor of the city of Paris and candidate for re-election, Anne Hidalgo, on the Pont d'Arcole, in Paris -

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The Stock Exchange could change skin.

The mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo proposed Tuesday to make the former Bourse du Commerce, which will eventually host the contemporary art collections of billionaire François Pinault, a "large vaccination center", with the aim of moving towards a "massive" vaccination.

"One of the proposals that I made yesterday to the ARS and to the Paris police prefect is to open the Bourse de Commerce, which will host a large contemporary foundation, the Pinault Foundation, so that this place can be opened and transformed. in a vaccination center, ”said Anne Hidalgo in Bordeaux on the sidelines of a meeting of the office of the International Association of French-speaking Mayors (AIMF).

"We are working on it"

"We are working on it," said the mayor of Paris at a press conference.

"I hope that there will be an agreement from the health authorities, but I believe in the opening of large vaccination centers, so that we can really massively vaccinate the population," she added, recalling that in Paris "we have opened 24 vaccination centers".

The old Bourse du Commerce, located between the Louvre and the Marais, near the Forum des Halles, has been renovated and transformed into a contemporary art center, and its opening, which was expected as the cultural event of the spring, has been postponed indefinitely due to the health crisis, after a first postponement of one year in 2020.

The 6,800 m2 of exhibition space (out of 10,500 m2 in total) of the building formerly Hall at the Blé then Bourse du Commerce, must accommodate the vast Pinault collection, dedicated to art from the 1960s to the present day, and made up of some 10,000 works by nearly 380 artists.

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