Ministry of Culture (Sweden)

Ministry of Culture

Kulturdepartementet
Agency overview
Formed	2007 (2007)
Employees	about 85
Minister responsible	Alice Bah Kuhnke
Website	www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/8371

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 Alice Bah Kuhnke (mp).

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

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 Arts Council, 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.
• Public Art Agency Sweden, or Statens konstråd. (Official site)

Film, artists and heritage

• Swedish Film Institute, or "Svenska filminstitutet". (Official site)
• Swedish Arts Grants Committee, or Konstnärsnämnden. (Official site)
• Swedish National Heritage Board, or Riksantikvarieämbetet. (Official site)

Media

• Swedish Television for the Deaf, or Dövas TV. (Official site)
• Nordicom. (Official site)
• Swedish Press Subsidies Council, or Presstödsnämnden. (Official site)
• Swedish Media Council, or Statens medieråd. (Official site)
• Swedish Broadcasting Corporation, or Sveriges Radio AB. (Official site)
• Sveriges Television. (Official site)
• Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company, or Sveriges Utbildningsradio. (Official site)
• Swedish Talking Newspapers Council, or Taltidningsnämnden. (Official site)
• Teracom. (Official site)
• Swedish Broadcasting Authority, or Myndigheten för radio och tv. (Official site)

Museums and exhibitions

• Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design. or ArtDes. (Official site)
• Bildmuseet. (Official site)
• Millesgården, or Carl och Olga Milles Lidingöhem. (Official site)
• Swedish Dance Museum, or Dansmuseet. (Official site)
• Drottningholm Theatre Museum, or Drottningholms teatermuseum. (Official site)
• Kiruna Centre for Conservation of Cultural Property, or Föremålsvård i Kiruna. (Official site)
• Jewish Museum of Sweden, or Judiska museet.
• The Royal Armoury, or Livrustkammaren. (Official site)
• Skokloster Castle, or Skoklosters slott. (Official site)
• Hallwyl Museum, or Hallwylska museet. (Official site)
• Moderna Museet. (Official site)
• Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts, or Nationalmuseum '. (Official site)
• Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde, or Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde. (Official site)
• Swedish Museum of Natural History, or Naturhistoriska riksmuseet. (Official site)
• Nordic Museum, or Nordiska museet. (Official site)
• Swedish Exhibition Agency, or Riksutställningar. (Official site)
• Rooseum. (Official site)
• Röhss Museum, or Röhsska museet. (Official site)
• Skansen. (Official site)
• Swedish Army Museum, or Statens försvarshistoriska museer. (Official site)
• Swedish Museum of National Antiquities, or Statens historiska museer. (Official site) (Official site)
• Swedish National Museums of World Culture, or Statens museer för världskultur. (Official site)
• Swedish National Collections of Music, or Statens musiksamlingar. (Official site)
• Swedish National Maritime Museums, or Statens sjöhistoriska museer. (Official site)
• Strindberg Museum, or Strindbergsmuseet. (Official site)
• Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology, or Tekniska museet. (Official site)
• Thielska Galleriet. (Official site)
• Zorn Collections, or Zornsamlingarna. (Official site)
• Museum of Work, or Arbetets museum.

Theatre, dance och music

• House of Dance, or Dansens Hus. (Official site)
• Royal Dramatic Theatre, or Dramaten. (Official site)
• Royal Swedish Academy of Music, or Musikaliska akademien.
• Royal Swedish Opera, or "Kungliga Operan". (Official site)
• Riksteatern. (Official site)
• Swedish National Concert Institute, or Svenska rikskonserter. (Official site)

Religious communities

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

Areas of responsibility

The Ministry of Culture is responsible for issues relating to culture, media, democracy, human rights at national level, the national minorities and the language and culture of the Sami people. The Ministry is also responsible for anti-discrimination work and issues concerning civil society, faith communities and burial and cremation services.

External links

• Ministry of Culture, official website (English)