The Culture Fund

The Storting makes an annual appropriation to the Culture Fund. The amount for 2011 is NOK 512 million. The aims of the Fund are:

• stimulating creative literary and artistic activities
• preserving cultural heritage
• making cultural life accessible to as many people as possible.

The Arts Council Norway manages the Norwegian Culture Fund, and it attaches special importance to:

• supporting innovative art
• encouraging new forms of artistic expression
• stimulating new mediation methods.

The Council seeks to encourage both cultural innovation and the preservation of the cultural heritage, and focuses its funding on initiatives which otherwise tend to be missed out by regular local or central support schemes. The Council supports extensive experimental projects and individual projects both in its regular fields and in selected priority programmes. It also supports projects which extend beyond or cut across the various discipline boundaries.