Poland Culture

​Central

State authorities are responsible for:

  • Developing and implementing  legislation and policy;
  • Facilitating international cooperation and promoting Polish culture abroad;
  • Protecting cultural heritage;
  • Supervising cultural institutions in the fields of theatre, music, fine arts as well as film;
  • Conserving monuments;
  • Protecting public art education;
  • Coordinating the development of the art education syllabus, of and cooperation of art schools and universities.

 

Regional

Regional authorities are responsible for:

  • Regional cultural institutions;
  • Protecting cultural assets;
  • Managing databases of cultural assets.

 

County authorities are responsible for:

  • Support to cultural institutions;
  • Protection of cultural property;
  • Initiating activities to establish and coordinate county cultural institutions.

 

Local

Local authorities are responsible for:

  • Promotion of culture;
  • Municipal libraries and other cultural institutions;
  • monument protection and maintenance.


Responsible ministries/bodies

Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

Regional (voivodship) authorities

County (powiat) authorities

Local (gmina) authorities


 

Sources:

Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

Act on the regions (Dz. U. z 1998r. Nr 91, poz. 576).

Act on the counties (Dz. U. z 1998r. Nr 91, poz. 578).

http://isap.sejm.gov.pl/DetailsServlet?id=WDU20011421591.

 

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