Ministry of Culture (Denmark)
Kulturministeriet is the Danish Ministry of Culture. It is one of 19 ministries of the Danish Government and has its headquarters in Assistenshuset in Nybrogade in the center of Copenhagen. Its responsibilities fall art, theater and film production, radio and television, the copyright as well as the amateur and professional sports.
Danish Minister of Culture since the December 6, 2012 Marianne Jelved of the party Venstre Det radicals.
History
The ministry was founded on September 19, 1961 as " Ministry of Cultural Affairs ' ( Ministeriet for cultural anliggender ). Most of its units were then separated from the Ministry of Education, but some tasks originated from other ministries, such as the areas of theater and film from the Ministry of Justice, historic preservation of the State, the Danish Arsenal Museum of the Defence Ministry and the Danish Museum of Decorative Arts and Danmarks Tekniske Museum from the Ministry of Commerce.
The funding policy of the Ministry, particularly the purchases of works of art by Statens Arts Foundation in 1964, came from the outset courageous criticism. In the face of increasing cultural consumption and an increasingly expanded understanding of culture, however, extended the changing governments, the state subsidies steadily from.
In the short period from 1987 to 1988, called the Ministry of Kultur-og Kommunikationsministeriet and since 1988 it assumed its present name Kulturministeriet. It made a number of shifts of responsibility: 1974 received the Ministry responsibilities for film censorship in 1976 for the sport. At the change of government in 1993 a large number of ministries was immediately redistributed, resulting in a further enlargement of the scope.
The term cultural canon was Minister of Culture Brian Mikkelsen publish in 2006 a list of 108 works, which should cover the Danish cultural heritage. The controversial project drew more " canon " by itself.
Agencies and public institutions
The three former authorities Kunststyrelsen ( Art Authority), Kulturarvsstyrelsen ( Heritage Authority) and Styrelsen for Library og Medier ( Library and Media Authority ) were combined in January 2012 in the joint authority Kulturstyrelsen. Another authority, which reports to the Ministry of Culture, is the Styrelsen for Slotte og Kulturejendomme ( Authority for locks and Cultural Heritage ), which is responsible for, among others, the operation and maintenance of palaces, gardens and other cultural goods. Currently, the Ministry of Culture are around 30 government institutions affiliated, including: