Areas of responsibility - the Ministry of Culture

• Culture

  The objectives of national cultural policy include: taking action to enable everyone to participate in cultural life, to experience culture and to engage in creative activities of their own; promoting cultural diversity, artistic renewal and quality; enabling culture to act as a dynamic, challenging and independent force in society; preserving and making use of our cultural heritage; promoting a thirst for learning, and promoting international cultural exchange and meetings between different cultures in the country.

• Cultural policy covers issues concerning archives, museums and the cultural environment; theatre, dance and music; architecture, form, design and the visual arts; burial and cremation services; libraries, literature and cultural publications; payments and grants to artists; film and video; handicrafts; religious communities; research and development in the field of culture; access to cultural activities for people with disabilities: culture for national minorities; culture for children and young people; culture in working life; culture and the popular movements: support for regional cultural activities; and the interaction between cultural policy and other policy areas.
  

• Media

  The objective of the Government's media policy is to support freedom of expression, diversity and the independence of and accessibility to mass media, as well as to combat harmful elements in mass media.
  

• Sport

  Sweden's sports policy is founded on three pillars. In planning, in the work of schools and in other contexts, everyone should be encouraged to take part in exercise and sport in order to promote good public health, and should be given the opportunity to do so. A free and independent sports movement, based on voluntary effort, that has a broad range of activities, that fosters good ethics, that provides equal conditions for girls and boys, women and men, that works actively for integration and that upholds training in democracy should receive active government support. Sports policy should also take into account the fact that sport involves a measure of commercial entertainment that gives many people pleasure and recreation.