Heritage Agency of Denmark
Kulturarvsstyrelsen (English Heritage Authority) was the existing 2002-2012 Danish conservation authority, based in Copenhagen. She was responsible for the preservation of cultural monuments. This included collections in eight state and 114 nationally recognized museums. It was January 1, 2012 with the other authorities of the Danish Ministry of Culture - Art Authority ( Kunststyrelsen ) and the Department for Libraries and Media ( Styrelsen for Library og Medier ) - merged to form the new cultural authority ( Kulturstyrelsen ).
Organization until the end of 2011
Among the approximately 100 employees who were employed by Kulturarvsstyrelsen, among other archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, art historians, architects, conservators, surveyors, lawyers and economists and political scientists were. You got a total annual budget of approximately DKK 600 million (as of March 2011) are available, with whom she discussed the Danish ministries, bills worked out and provided for the implementation of the laws that affected the area of the Danish cultural heritage. In addition, coordinated and advised the Authority, the Danish museums and managed a central documentation center, so as to gain an overview of the cultural heritage of the country. The Authority was advised by a number of specialized committees, which were composed of representatives from museums and universities. Among them included the Ministry of Culture appointed special supervision (Det Særlige Bygningssyn ), which advised the authority in matters for the protection and restoration of buildings.
In addition Kulturarvsstyrelsen operation in addition to various sites two central register: on the one hand the register Kunstindeks Danmark (KID ), which collects information about works of art in public and recognized by the state museums and one of its integrated constituent holds a digitized output of Weil Bach Kunstnerleksikon; on the other hand, the historical culture central register Fund og Fortidsminder (German discoveries and antiquities ), the over 150,000 historical and cultural places, including archaeological places, informed.
A great online project that was launched by the Authority in 2010, the website 1001 is fortællinger om Danmark ( Thousand and story about Denmark), Denmark's first and largest interactive website about the cultural heritage of the country.