Ministry of Culture (Sweden)

Ministry of Culture (Sweden)
Ministry of Culture
Kulturdepartementet
overview
Formed 2007 (2007)[1]
Employees about 85
Minister responsible Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth
Website
www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/8371
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The Ministry of Culture (Swedish: Kulturdepartementet) is a ministry within the government of Sweden responsible for culture policy. The ministry is headed by the Minister for Culture, currently Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth (m).

The Ministry of Culture is located at Drottninggatan 16 in central Stockholm.

Contents

Government agencies

The Ministry of Culture is principal for the following government agencies:

General cultural activities

  • Hanaholmen Cultural Centre for Sweden and Finland, or Hanaholmens kulturcentrum för Sverige och Finland.
  • Swedish National Council for Cultural Affairs, or Statens kulturråd. (Official site)
  • Foundation Culture of the Future, or Stiftelsen framtidens kultur. (Official site)
  • Foundation for Swedish-Norwegian Cooperation, or Svensk-norska samarbetsfonden

Language, literature, libraries and archives

  • Book Industry Finance Institute, or Bokbranschens finansieringsinstitut. (Official site)
  • Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore, formerly known as Swedish Institute for Dialectology, Onomastics and Folklore Research, or Institutet för språk och folkminnen. (Official site)
  • Swedish National Archives and the Swedish Regional Archives, or Riksarkivet och landsarkiven. (Official site)
  • Centre for Easy-to-Read, or Stiftelsen för lättläst nyhetsinformation och litteratur. (Official site)
  • Swedish Biographical Dictionary, or Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. (Official site)
  • Swedish Authors' Fund, or Sveriges författarfond. (Official site)
  • Swedish Library of Talking Books and Braille, or Talboks- och punktskriftsbiblioteket. (Official site)

Visual arts, design and applied arts

  • Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, or Akademien för de fria konsterna.
  • Visual Art Collecting Society, or Bildkonst Upphovsrätt i Sverige (BUS).
  • Swedish National Handicraft Council, or Nämnden för hemslöjdsfrågor.
  • Swedish National Art Council, or Statens konstråd. (Official site)

Film, artists and heritage

Media

Museums and exhibitions

Theatre, dance och music

Religious communities

  • Swedish Commission for State Grants to Religious Communities, or Samarbetsnämnden för statsbidrag till trossamfund.

References

  1. ^ "Kulturdepartementet" (in Swedish). Nationalencyklopedin. http://www.ne.se/kulturdepartementet. Retrieved 13 November 2010.  (subscription required)

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