In 1955, the National Museum of Fine Arts moved into the building, and three years later the Modern Museum under Pontus Hultén.
Between 1984 and 1990, Pontus Hultén was in charge of the art museum which also contains a 600 seat outdoor theatre.
Pontus | Mithridates VI of Pontus | Mesembria (Pontus) | Stratonice of Pontus | Pontus Hultén | Pontus de Tyard | Pontus Norgren | Pontus Hulten | Pontus Gårdinger | Pontus and Sidonia | Polemon I of Pontus | Pharnaces II of Pontus | Laodice (wife of Mithridates II of Pontus) | Laodice (wife of Mithridates III of Pontus) | Ariobarzanes of Pontus |
Catherine Millet, Alfred Pacquement, Jean-Marc Poinsot, Daniel Abadie, Lucy R. Lippard, Pontus Hulten, Gérald Gassiot-Talabot, Achille Bonito Oliva, Pierre Restany, Pierre Courcelles, Paul Ardenne, Stephen Wright, Francesco Masci, Brian Holmes, Elisabeth Lebovici.
The AWC grew out of an incident at MoMA during the exhibition curated by Pontus Hulten, The Machine at the End of the Mechanical Age: on January 3, 1969, Greek kinetic sculptor Vassilakis Takis, with the support of friends, physically removed his work from the exhibition.