Budgets 2022: Culture prioritizes cinemas and museums in accounts with 40% more revenue

If last year the Ministry of Culture already had its largest economic contingent in a decade, for next year Miquel Iceta will still have 38.4% more than his predecessor José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes.

The budget of his department

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Of these, 356 come from the European Recovery Funds.

A budget item that Culture has focused especially on the film sector, which increases its items to 97 million, 10% more than in 2021; in plastic arts and museums, the great beneficiaries of the accounts with an item that rises by 20% to 197 million, and the Young Cultural Bonus, announced last week by Pedro Sánchez, and that, according to the Government's forecasts, with its 210 million will reach half a million Spaniards who turn 18 in 2022.

However, the growth in budget items, although in lower quotas, is general in all items of the General State Budget of 2022 for Culture. Thus,

both managed by the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM). Within the heading of the performing arts, whose total amounts to 266 million, the cinema section also appears with 97 million. Of these, 70 will go to the Film Protection Fund and 10 will be for aid to the exhibition halls.

In the case of museums, the great beneficiary is the Thyssen Bornemisza Collection Foundation, which increases its budget by 11 million euros while the Prado and Reina Sofía museums increase by seven and four respectively.

This increase in the items, as detailed by the Treasury in the Yellow Book, is carried out for "building rehabilitation interventions", "expansion and construction of new venues" and "the renewal of permanent exhibitions."

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