Central

Ministry of Education and Culture

• Draft legislation, policy and strategy
• Provide State funding;
• Create the conditions for culture and for participation in culture;
• Prepare relevant budget proposals;
• International cooperation;
• Promote arts and culture and national cultural and art institutions;
• Manage EU Structural Funds.

Arts Council for Finland

• Award grants, subsidies and awards.

National Board of Antiquities

• Preserve, collect, study and display items that represent cultural heritage of national importance.
• Produce information about cultural environments and artefacts that is made available for everyone,
• Conduct research;
• Provide direction and supervision of the museum system and matters relating to licensing, supervision and subsidies.

National Audiovisual Archive  New name of the organization in English is National Audiovisual Institute, KAVI as shortened in Finnish.

• Stores, documents and restores Finnish films and videos;
• Promoting film research;
• Disseminating film knowledge.

Finnish Centre for Media Education and Audiovisual Media

• The supervision of audiovisual programme provision and the coordination and promotion of national media education are handled by the National Audiovisual Institute's Department for Media Education and Audiovisual Media (MEKU).

Regional

Regional Council

• Develop and coordinate of the region's cultural activities.

Åland competences

• Overall culture policy
• Cultural activities;
• Prehistoric relics;
• Protection of artefacts with cultural and historic value;
• Library services;
• Museum services.

Local

• Culture programming;
• Music and art education;
• Co-funding with the State;
• Wide range of cultural services;
• Library services;
• Art institutions;
• Art education, support art and cultural heritage;
• Create opportunities for cultural and artistic activities.

Responsible ministries/bodies

Sources:

Act on the autonomy of Åland (1991/1144), Section 18

Library network and cultural services,

Arts Council for Finland

Finnish Centre for Media Education and Audiovisual

Ministry of Education and Culture

National Audiovisual Institute

National Board of Antiquities