Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland)

Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego
Ministerial logotype

Ministry headquarters
Ministry overview
HeadquartersPotocki Palace, 15 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street, Warsaw
Annual budgetPLN 4.029 billion[1]
Minister responsible
Secretaries of State responsible
Ministry executive
  • Undersecretary of State
  • Director General
Parent departmentCouncil of Ministers
Websitewww.gov.pl/web/kultura
Footnotes
Leadership officials source:[2]
Seat of the Ministry – the main palace building

The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Polish: Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego) is a ministry within Polish government led by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage responsible for national heritage preservation and Polish culture promotion. Ministry oversees state or partially state cultural institutions and implements the law regarding art and cultural property. Ministry headquarters are located at Potocki Palace, 15 Krakowskie Przedmieście Street in Warsaw.[3] Incumbent minister has been Hanna Wróblewska member of the Cabinet) since May 2024

History

It was formed on 31 October 2005, from transformation of Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Poland. The ministry can trace its history back to 1918 when the Ministry of Art and Culture was established. It was suppressed in 1922 due to rationalization of public expense and structural reform of the government.[4] It was reestablished within the temporary communist government in 1944 and has existed continuously henceforth until the merger with the Ministry of Sport in 2021.

List of ministers

Portrait Name Party Term of offices Prime minister

(cabinet)

Ministers of Culture and Art
Medard Downarowicz SNN 17 November 1918 16 January 1919 Jędrzej Moraczewski
Zenon Przesmycki nonpartisan 16 January 1919 9 December 1919 Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Jan Fryderyk Heurich nonpartisan 24 June 1920 11 August 1921 Władysław Grabski

Wincenty Witos

Maciej Rataj PSL „Piast” 11 August 1921 13 September 1921 Wincenty Witos
Antoni Ponikowski PSChD 19 September 1921 5 March 1922 Antoni Ponikowski
Ministers of Culture and Art in Poland under Communism (1944–89)[5]
Wincenty Rzymowski SD 21 July 1944 2 May 1945 Polish Committee of National Liberation
Edmund Zalewski SL 2 May 1945 28 June 1945 Provisional Government of National Unity
Władysław Kowalski SL 28 June 1945 5 February 1947 Provisional Government of National Unity
Stefan Dybowski SL/ZSL 6 February 1947 20 November 1952 Józef Cyrankiewicz (Cyrankiewicz I)
Włodzimierz Sokorski PZPR 21 November 1952 19 April 1956 Bolesław Bierut (Bierut)
Karol Kuryluk PZPR 19 April 1956 29 April 1958 Józef Cyrankiewicz (Cyrankiewicz II)
Kazimierz Rusinek (acting) PZPR 3 May 1958 2 July 1958 Józef Cyrankiewicz (Cyrankiewicz III)
Tadeusz Galiński PZPR 2 July 1958 12 December 1964 Józef Cyrankiewicz (Cyrankiewicz IV)
Lucjan Motyka PZPR 12 December 1964 26 October 1971 Józef Cyrankiewicz (Cyrankiewicz V)
Czesław Wiśniewski (acting) PZPR 26 October 1971 22 December 1971 Józef Cyrankiewicz (Cyrankiewicz V)
Stanisław Wroński PZPR 22 December 1971 16 February 1974 Piotr Jaroszewicz (Jaroszewicz I)
Józef Tejchma PZPR 16 February 1974 26 January 1978 Piotr Jaroszewicz (Jaroszewicz II)
Janusz Wilhelmi (acting) PZPR 26 January 1978 16 March 1978 Piotr Jaroszewicz (Jaroszewicz II)
Jan Mietkowski PZPR 29 March 1978 4 July 1978 Piotr Jaroszewicz (Jaroszewicz II)
Zygmunt Najdowski PZPR 20 July 1978 8 October 1980 Piotr Jaroszewicz (Jaroszewicz II)
Józef Tejchma PZPR 8 October 1980 9 October 1982 Edward Babiuch (Babiuch)

Józef Pińkowski (Pińkowski)

Wojciech Jaruzelski (Jaruzelski)

Kazimierz Żygulski nonpartisan 9 October 1982 29 September 1986 Wojciech Jaruzelski (Jaruzelski)

Zbigniew Messner (Messner)

Aleksander Krawczuk nonpartisan 29 September 1986 1 August 1989 Zbigniew Messner (Messner)

Mieczysław Rakowski (Rakowski)

Ministers of Culture and Art (1989–1999)
Izabella Cywińska nonpartisan 12 September 1989 12 January 1991 Tadeusz Mazowiecki (Mazowiecki)
Marek Rostworowski nonpartisan 12 January 1991 23 December 1991 Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (Bielecki)
Andrzej Siciński nonpartisan 23 December 1991 11 July 1992 Jan Olszewski (Olszewski)
Piotr Łukasiewicz (acting) nonpartisan 11 July 1992 17 February 1993 Hanna Suchocka (Suchocka)
Jerzy Góral Christian National Union 17 February 1993 26 October 1993 Hanna Suchocka (Suchocka)
Kazimierz Dejmek nonpartisan 26 October 1993 26 January 1996 Waldemar Pawlak (Pawlak II)

Józef Oleksy (Oleksy)

Zdzisław Podkański Polish People's Party 15 February 1996 31 October 1997 Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (Cimoszewicz)
Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa Freedom Union 31 October 1997 26 March 1998 Jerzy Buzek (Buzek)
Andrzej Zakrzewski Conservative People's Party 26 March 1998 19 October 1999 Jerzy Buzek (Buzek)
Ministers of Culture and National Heritage (1999–2001)
Andrzej Zakrzewski Conservative People's Party 19 October 1999 10 February 2000 Jerzy Buzek (Buzek)
Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski Conservative People's Party 10 February 2000 12 July 2001 Jerzy Buzek (Buzek)
Andrzej Zieliński nonpartisan 12 July 2001 19 October 2001 Jerzy Buzek (Buzek)
Ministers of Culture (2001–2005)
Andrzej Celiński Democratic Left Alliance 19 October 2001 6 July 2002 Leszek Miller (Miller)
Waldemar Dąbrowski nonpartisan 6 July 2002 31 October 2005 Leszek Miller (Miller)

Marek Belka (Belka I, Belka II)

Ministers of Culture and National Heritage (2005–Present)
Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski Law and Justice 31 October 2005 7 September 2007 Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (Marcinkiewicz)

Jarosław Kaczyński (Kaczyński)

Jarosław Kaczyński (acting) Law and Justice 7 September 2007 12 September 2007 Jarosław Kaczyński (Kaczyński)
Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski Law and Justice 12 September 2007 16 November 2007 Jarosław Kaczyński (Kaczyński)
Bogdan Zdrojewski Civic Platform 16 November 2007 14 June 2014 Donald Tusk (Tusk I, Tusk II)
Małgorzata Omilanowska nonpartisan 14 June 2014 16 November 2015 Donald Tusk (Tusk II)

Ewa Kopacz (Kopacz)

Piotr Gliński Law and Justice 16 November 2015 27 November 2023 Beata Szydło (Szydło)

Mateusz Morawiecki (Morawiecki, Morawiecki II)

Dominika Chorosińska Law and Justice 27 November 2023 13 December 2023 Mateusz Morawiecki (Morawiecki III)
Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz Civic Platform 13 December 2023 13 May 2024 Donald Tusk (Tusk III)
Hanna Wróblewska nonpartisan 13 May 2024 present Donald Tusk (Tusk III)

References

  1. ^ "Informacja o wynikach kontroli. Wykonanie budżetu państwa w 2019 r.w części 24 − Kultura i ochrona dziedzictwa narodowego oraz wykonanie w 2019 r. planów finansowych Funduszu Promocji Kultury i Narodowego Funduszu Ochrony Zabytków" (PDF). BIP.MKiDN.gov.pl (in Polish). 7 March 2017.
  2. ^ "Kierownictwo ministerstwa - Ministerstwo kultury i Dziedzistwa Narooego - Portal Gov.pl". www.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  3. ^ "Dane kontaktowe - Ministerstwo kultury i Dziedzistwa Narooego - Portal Gov.pl". www.gov.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 4 February 2023.
  4. ^ "14 lutego 1922 r. Likwidacja resortu kultury". NowaHistoria.Interia.pl. 14 February 2017.
  5. ^ "Lista ministrów kultury". MKiDN.gov.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 26 September 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
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