Ministry of Culture (Ukraine)

Updated on Oct 22, 2023

Edit

Comment

Formed 9 December 2010 Parent agency Cabinet of Ministers		Jurisdiction Ukraine

Preceding agency Ministry of Culture and Tourism (active in 1991-2010) Headquarters 19, Ivan Franko St., Kyiv Minister responsible Yevhen Nyshchuk , Minister of Culture of Ukraine

The Ministry of Culture of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Міністерство культури України) or MinCult is the main state authority in the system of central government of Ukraine responsible for country's cultural development and history preservation. It is fully based on the former Ministry of Culture and Tourism (that was dissolved in 2010).

History

There was no Ministry of Culture in Ukraine until 1953. The first Minister of Culture of the Ukrainian SSR was appointed just over a month after the death of Stalin on April 10, 1953. His name was Kostiantyn Lytvyn.

The closest predecessor to the Ministry of Culture was Ministry of Art headed by Dmytro Antonovych (December 1918 - February 1919) that was disbanded soon after the Soviet invasion of Ukraine. There also existed Ministry of Confessions that was first created during the government of Skoropadsky on April 30, 1918 and was at first headed by Mykola Vasylenko. After the fall of Skoropadsky government Ministry of Confessions (April 30, 1918 - December 14, 1918) was transformed into Administration of Cults at first and later into Ministry of Denomination (February 13, 1919) both headed by Ivan Lypa. One of the most noticeable ministers however was Ivan Ohiyenko.

Structure

The ministry consists of the central body of ministry headed by its leadership composed of a minister, his/hers first deputy, and other deputies in assistance to the minister. Part of ministry compose several state administrations that are specialized in certain field and coordinate operations of government companies.

Central Body

Leadership

Minister

First Deputy

Deputies

Deputy-Chief of Aparat

Section in support of the Minister's performance

Sector of informational-analytic work and communication with public

Sector of control and checks in execution of acts and orders of the President of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada, and the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine as well as the orders of leadership

Sector of job-secrecy work

Sector of mobilization work and public security

Section of financial revisions and support of measures in the fight with corruption

Sector for prevention and counter-action of corruption

Section of human resources and state service

Directory of legal support

Section of legal expertise

Section for the use of legislation

Sector for conducting a claim work

Directory of Affairs

Section for documents support and control

Section for cooperation with Verkhovna Rada

Sector for organization of access to the public information

Department in formation of the state policy in the sphere of culture, art, and education

Directory of Arts

Section of musical art

Section of theatrical art

Section of monumental, artistic, and folk art

Sector of circus art

Directory for strategical planning of cultural development and regional policy in the sphere of culture

Section of analysis and forecasting of activities in learning institutions

Section of analysis and forecasting of socio-cultural development of regions

Section of analysis and forecasting of libraries activities

Others;

State agencies

State Service of Cinematography

State Service in control of transportation of cultural valuables over the State Border

State Service in protection of the National Cultural Heritage

State Service of Tourism and Resorts

Ministerial institutions and organizations

The ministry also administers a network of museums, libraries, cultural centers, regional centers of folklore, national cultural heritage sites, various artistic education in schools and universities, has own research centers and institutions, promotes circus, musical and theatric arts in regions.

The ministry also maintains the registry of fixed landmarks of cultural heritage (national and local). On 11 December 2012 there were 4,719 such landmarks, 891 of national significance and the other 3,828 of local significance.

Note: while most of the educational state institutions are administered by the Ministry of Education, most arts educational state institutions are administered by the Ministry of Culture.

Ukrainian cultural centers

Cultural center of Ukraine in Russia

Ukrainian cultural and information center in Sevastopol

State agency in promotion of culture of Ukraine

Museums under Ministry jurisdiction

National Museum of History of Ukraine

National Museum of History of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945

National Art Museum of Ukraine

National Museum of Literature of Ukraine

National Museum of Taras Shevchenko

National Research Restoration Center of Ukraine

Directorate of Arts Exhibitions of Ukraine

National Museum Sanctuary of Ukrainian Pottery

Sheptytsky National Museum in Lviv

Lviv National Gallery of Arts

Memorial to the Holodomor Victims in Ukraine

National Museum of Folk Architecture and Lifestyle of Ukraine

Jail on Lontskoho

Marshal Konev Height

Historic Museum of Church of the Tithes

References

Ministry of Culture (Ukraine) Wikipedia

(Text) CC BY-SA

Contents