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Chapter 4 Culture Connects the World
�5 Cultural Policy in Foreign Countries
1 Cultural Policy in the United Kingdom
(2) Promotion of art and culture


The Arts Councils, as well as other organizations whose purpose is the promotion of art and culture, have an independent corporation status. They conduct programs that, for example, support art activities, with subsidies from the DNH as their major financial resource. To a great extent, these organizations are administered autonomously. The Arts Council of Great Britain was established in 1946. and as the central organization for the distribution of governmental funds in the fields of performing arts, music, fine arts and others, periodically provides financial assistance to about 600art organizations, as well as subsidizing thousands of individual projects. The distribution of subsidies by the Arts Council of Great Britain is shown in Table I-4-5.

Governmental funds are distributed directly to national museums and art galleries. To other museums and art galleries, subsidies are granted through the Museums and Galleries Commission, which also functions as an advisory organ of the government.

Since its establishment in 1933, the British Film Institute has been engaged in such activities as the promotion of image culture as expressed in film, television and video, the management of film archives and national movie theaters and the subsidized production of films. Another organization, the National Film and Television School, established in 1971, is engaged in the fostering of human resources in this field.

Table 1-4-5 State of Distribution of Subsidies from Arts Councils


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