The Ministry of Culture is the central public authority responsible for developing and implementing strategy and policies in the field of culture.

At the legislative and institutional level, the Ministry of Culture ensures the regulation and the normative framework specific to the field, as well as the international representation of the Romanian State in matters of art, culture and patrimony. At the management level, the Ministry deals with the administration and management of allocated assets, budgets and funds (through grants or grants) and the guidance, support and control of subordinate institutions.

The Ministry of Culture is the authority that ensures the protection of cultural heritage, including intangible heritage, by creating the specific legislative framework and by evaluation, restoration, conservation and enhancement programs. With regard to contemporary creation, the Ministry has the mission to support and stimulate the development of this field, by ensuring an infrastructure and a legal, economic and financial-fiscal framework that meets at the same time the needs of creators and producers (public or private), and the public. The Ministry is also responsible for supporting and promoting the culture of national minorities and multiculturalism, as well as for creating a specific framework for cultural education and for ensuring access to and participation in culture of the public from disadvantaged categories and areas.

The Ministry of Culture has a central role in reforming and decentralizing the institutional system and public and private financing systems in the field, with an emphasis on transparency, equal and non-discriminatory access to public funds, efficiency and specialized evaluation.

A number of public cultural institutions operate under the Ministry of Culture, financed in full or in part from the state budget. The complete list of them can be consulted in the attached document. Starting with February 2016, in addition to the Ministry of Culture, there is also the Living Culture Platform (active link), a working group with a consultative role in the process of elaborating cultural strategies and policies at national level.