 Luxembourg
In the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, the Ministry of Culture, higher Education
and Research (http://www.ltam.lu/culture/) is implementing the cultural
policy, culture being understood as a vast factor shaping all societies,
integrating at the same time the arts, literature, customs and habits,
fundamental human rights, creativity and acceptance of the other.
More than 33% of those who live in Luxembourg are not "nationals".
Therefore, the Ministry of Culture is conscious that culture needs to
appeal to the country's many component communities.
The main objective in the Ministry's strategy is the creation of an appropriate
legislative and structural framework for the development of the arts,
including international and public arts and the enhancement of the national
cultural infrastructure. To achieve these goals, the Ministry of Culture
works in close cooperation with all public and private cultural sectors.
More concretely, the Government has implemented a law on the statute of
the independent professional artist and the entertainment intermittent,
as well as on the promotion of artistic creation.
The Ministry disposes of financial means to grant subsidies for artistic
creation and projects, thanks to a special budgetary article valorising
cultural creation and it financially assists some 50 non profit organisations
and associations working in the field of culture through special types
of conventions.
In Luxembourg, the cultural functions are not divided specifically between
different local or regional entities and most cultural competence is thus
assigned to the Ministry of Culture. As a consequence the principal cultural
institutions, such as the National
Archives, the National Library, the
main musea, the National Audio-visual
Centre, the National Sites and Monuments Service, the National
Centre of Literature, the Neumünster Abbey Cultural Centre and
are operating as institutes under the indirect hierarchical administration
of the Ministry of Culture.
Finally, the Ministry is responsible for regional cultural initiatives
(three regional cultural animation centres), for EU policy affairs, bilateral
and multilateral cultural foreign affairs (Council of Europe, UNESCO,
etc.). In close collaboration with the Cultural
Direction of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture
may sign international and multilateral agreements on cooperation on cultural
affairs, amongst others. Special cultural cooperation on particular projects
may occur between the Ministry and the different embassies representing
the Grand-Duchy all over the world, as well as between the Ministry and
the foreign embassies accredited in Luxembourg.
For more information on Luxembourg culture:
The Luxembourg
Government
The Ministry of Culture, Higher
education and Research (cultural department)
The Ministry
for Foreign Affairs
The National Archives
The National Library
The National Audio-visual Centre
The National Centre of
Literature
The National Tourist Office
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National Cultural sites
