The Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture (German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

: Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur, short: BMUKK or Unterrichtsministerium) is a ministry

Ministry (government department)

A ministry is a specialised organisation responsible for a sector of government public administration, sometimes led by a minister or a senior public servant, that can have responsibility for one or more departments, agencies, bureaus, commissions or other smaller executive, advisory, managerial or...

 of the Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n federal government. It has offices in Vienna. The current head of the ministry is minister Claudia Schmied, sworn in on December 2, 2008.

Responsibilities

The Ministry BMUKK is responsible for all matters regarding public education and the arts, including Pedagogical Universities, Theatre and Film promotion, Museums, Religious foundations and related management and funding, such as for the Austrian National Library

Austrian National Library

The Austrian National Library , is the largest library in Austria, with 7.4 million items in its collections. It is located in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna; since 2005 some of the collections are located in the baroque Palais Mollard-Clary...

, and the Vienna Philharmonic. The Bundesdenkmalamt

Bundesdenkmalamt

The Bundesdenkmalamt is the name of the Austrian Federal Monuments Office, a department of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture that is responsible for cultural heritage in Austria.-History:...

is a sub department of the BUKK.

The Federal Ministry for Science and Research (German: Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung) is in charge of academic education in Austria.

External links

• Official site (in German)