A contemporary museum isn’t any longer a place that is only dedicated to collecting, preserving, and presenting the collections, but a place which is integrated into a network, as the studies of strategies of diffusion are showing. This is the subject of my thesis worked in the field of communication and information science with the title: “International diffusion of culture: the lending strategies of works of art and exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern Art (Georges Pompidou Center) during 2000 and 2007”.The National Museum of Modern Art (Pompidou Center) is one of the most important museums of the world thanks to its modern and contemporary collections. The Pompidou Center does not only present temporary exhibitions, but also a range of other cultural activities: cinema shows, concerts, conferences and spectacles. Its collection comprises 60, 000 pieces of works of art which are borrowed by museums all over the world.Taking its rich collection into consideration, the lending strategies of works of art are one of the important drivers of the museum. The analysis of these lending strategies is crucial from a museology standpoint.The first part of the thesis deals with the circulation mechanism of works of art and the exhibitions in the context of international territories. The second chapter of the thesis looks at the circulation of cultural goods in the context of globalization. The last part of the thesis deals with the development of international communication strategies via the strategy of diffusion.That is how this work shows an international diffusion of culture via the lending strategies of works of art and exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern Art (Pompidou Center).
