Ministry of Culture (Sweden)

Ministry of Culture
Kulturdepartementet
overview
Formed	2007 (2007)
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.

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

• 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)
• Swedish Broadcasting Commission, or Granskningsnämnden för radio och TV. (Official site)
• Nordicom. (Official site)
• Swedish Press Subsidies Council, or Presstödsnämnden. (Official site)
• Swedish Radio and TV Authority, or Radio-och TV-verket. (Official site)
• Swedish Council on Media Violence, or Rådet mot skadliga våldsskildringar (Våldsskildringsrådet).
• Swedish National Board of Film Classification, or Statens biografbyrå. (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)

Museums and exhibitions

• Swedish Museum of Architecture, or Arkitekturmuseet. (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.
• Royal Swedish Armoury, or Livrustkammaren. (Official site)
• Skokloster Castle, or Skoklosters slott. (Official site)
• Hallwyl Museum, or Hallwylska museet. (Official site)
• Swedish Modern Museum, or 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)
• Swedish National Museum of Cultural History, or Nordiska museet. (Official site)
• Swedish Travelling Exhibitions, 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)
• Thiel Gallery, or 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 Swedish Theatre, or Dramaten. (Official site)
• Royal Swedish Academy of Music, or Musikaliska akademien.
• Royal Swedish Opera, or "Kungliga Operan". (Official site)
• Swedish National Touring Theatre, or 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.

External links

• Ministry of Culture, official website (English)