The new media used by artists (video first of all, and later CD-ROMs, CDs, and Internet sites) have figured among the interests of the Musée national d'art moderne since it was incorporated into the Centre Georges Pompidou  (http://www.centrepompidou.fr) in 1976. Indeed, these media and means of communication, some of which already seem to be classics of our times, were appropriated by artists at the beginning of the 1960s and integrated very quickly into the museum's collection and exhibitions.
The New Media department of the Musée national d'art moderne, created in 1986, addresses the ongoing relationships between the visual arts now considered as traditional (painting, sculpture, installation) and these new means for creation. Since the 1960s, artists have been interested in technically reproducible arts and continue to integrate new technologies into their practices.

The New Media department is currently involved in eight areas of activity concerning the new media:
- production of works of art in these different media in order to present them in exhibitions and expand the Mnam-Cci collection;
- development of a collection that has now become one of the most important on the international level both qualitatively and quantitatively: 700 videos and CD-ROMs, plus 32 multimedia installations;
- creation of a New Media Area that allows visitors to the Mnam's contemporary exhibition spaces to consult the entire New Media collection during the Centre's opening hours;
- temporary programming of videos or CD-ROMs in response to current events or within the Centre's major contemporary exhibits;
- organization of solo or thematic exhibitions situating these media within current artistic trends;
- production of the Revue Virtuelle (1992-1996), a virtual "magazine" that provided a forum for discussion and presentation of the latest technologies;
- publication of monographic and thematic catalogues, CD-ROMs, the catalogue raisonné of the collection on paper, and later the conception and distribution of this first catalogue raisonné on the Internet;
- participation in public events organized elsewhere.