minister of culture

A culture minister or a heritage minister is a common cabinet position in governments. The culture minister is typically responsible for cultural policy, which often includes arts policy (direct and indirect support to artists and arts organizations) and measures to protect the national heritage of a country and cultural expression of a country or subnational region. This responsibility usually manifests in the accompanying ministry (also called a "department"), governing the following: an official registry of protected historic sites and other sites of cultural importance maintaining national archives of cultural work, including public museums, galleries and libraries creating a department or ministry of culture or arts creating arts councils, which disburse funding to artists and arts o...