The State supports arts and culture

Museum of Contemporary Art . Photo: / Pirje Mykkänen CULTURE IN IN CULTURE

The state and the municipalities fund most of the expenditure on arts and culture. The Ministry of Education and Culture is the most important central government provider of funding for arts and culture. Arts and culture receive funding from both the general Budget and the lottery proceeds.

In Finland, public funding plays a major Appropriations for arts and culture in 2010–2017 500 450 role in the field of arts and culture, M € 400 mainly because of small domestic 350 500 oa markets. The state and the municipalities 300 450 are responsible for the public funding 250 400 milj. eur Veikkausvoittovarat of arts and culture. The state funds the 200 350 Budjettivarat operations of national arts and cultural Budget appropriations (M €) 150 300 agencies and institutions as well as other 100 250 50 activities relating to national tasks. It 200 0 also grants central government transfers 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 150 to municipalities as well as to arts and Lottery proceeds (M €) 100 cultural institutions that provide regional 50 services. Discretionary government 0 transfers are granted to support, for 2011 2012 2014 2017 example, the activities of third sector 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2013 2015 2016 operators in arts and culture. In other respects, the municipalities fund their own activities in the field of Arts and culture was allocated some central government finances. arts and culture. The combined funding EUR 463 million in the 2017 Budget, The arts and culture field gets by the municipalities is slightly higher accounting for 0.8% of the total Budget. funding even from other parts of the than funding by the state. In addition The arts and culture budget is under Budget than the arts and culture budget. to public funding, also foundations the Ministry of Education and Culture’s The Ministry of Finance provides the fund different kinds of arts and cultural main title of expenditure. While funding funding for central government transfers projects, and they have increased their for arts and culture increased in the to public libraries in municipalities as funding in recent years. Otherwise first decade of the 2000s, the growth part of the basic public services budget. private funding is rare. stagnated in the 2010s due to poor Education in arts and culture receive its

Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland | The State supports arts and culture | 2/2017 Appropriations for arts and culture

Government agencies and national art institutions 5 % Costs of facilities for cultural institutions and sites 9 % 23 % Government transfers and grants (theatres, orchestras, libraries) 4 % Artist grants and pensions, the promotion of di erent elds of art, art acquisitions, prizes

Government transfers and grants for museums, 12 % cultural heritage, digitising, cultural environment etc. 9 % Cultural institutions, cultural institutes, cultural exports, frienship associations, other actors

Other promotion and development of culture 18 % 20 % Private copying remuneration, public lending remuneration, and development of the copyright system

funding from the education and training allocated to arts and cultural institutions appropriations. National public service safeguarding regional access to arts and Half of the broadcasting and some other media- cultural services. The third major share expenditure in related expenditure are also funded from of the funding goes to discretionary arts and culture other sources than the arts and culture government transfers allocated to budget. different kinds of purposes. are funded Around half of the expenditure in with lottery arts and culture are funded with lottery The Ministry does not make all proceeds. This is an established practice. the funding decisions proceeds. Lottery proceeds are used to promote The Ministry of Education does not sports and physical education, science, always decide who receives the central arts, youth work as well as third sector government transfers included in operators in healthcare and social the arts and culture budget. The Arts Remunerations for the lending of welfare. In arts and culture, lottery Promotion Centre operating under the copies of a work to the public and proceeds are mostly used to fund grants Ministry decides who gets state grants to compensations for the reproduction Valtion virastot ja kansalliset taidelaitokset and discretionary government transfers. artists as well as other grants and awards of a work for private use, covered from (KG, SKO, SKT); 106,2 milj. euroa 5 % A significant share of the funding amounting to just over EUR 30 million the Budget, are paid to the copyright Vuokrat Senaatti -Kiinteistöille; 39,6 milj. euroa 9 % for arts and culture goes to cover the annually. The division of responsibilities holders through collective management Valtionosuudet ja -avustukset teattereille, 23 % orkestereille ja kirjastoille; 92,6 milj. euroa activities and facilities of national between the Ministry and the Arts organisations and other organisations 4 % art institutions and government Promotion Centre is mainly based on the representing copyright holders. Taiteilija-apurahat ja -eläkkeet, taiteenalojen edistäminen, taidehankinnat sekä palkinnot; agencies performing national duties. arm’s length principle. The art councils 82,2 milj. euroa The national art institutions include under the Arts Promotion Centre decide, 12 % Museoiden valtionosuudet ja -avustukset, the Finnish National Opera and Ballet, based on peer review, the artists who kulttuuriperintö, ml. digitointi, kiinteistöjen 9 % kunnossapito, kultt. ympäristö ja kv-sopimukset; the Finnish National Theatre and the are awarded a state grant. State grant 54,9 milj. euroa

Finnish National Gallery. Agencies to artists are granted for different Kulttuurilaitokset (Cultura-säätiö, SES, CUPORE) performing national duties include the durations. Every year some 570 artists kulttuuri- instituutit, kulttuurivienti, ystävyysseurat ja muut toimijat; 19,4 milj. euroa National Board of Antiquities, the Arts receive a state grant, representing some 18 % 20 % Promotion Centre and the National three per cent of all the artists in Finland. Muu kulttuurin edistäminen ja kehittäminen (lastenkulttuuri, alueellinen edistäminen, Audiovisual Archive. Central government The tax-free grant is about EUR 1,700 per kulttuurilehdet jne.); 41,8 milj. euroa transfers to municipalities are another month. Lainauskorvaukset, yksityisen kopiopinnin hyvitys significant expenditure item: they are Taiteelle ja kulttuurille sekä tekijänoikeusjärjestelmän kehittäminen; 458 milj. euroa (TAE 2016) 20,7 milj. euroa

Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland | The State supports arts and culture | 2/2017