Museum on the Holocaust in the cultural budget 2020

“A new museum will be set up to preserve and carry on the memory of the Holocaust. Against this background, the government has appointed an inquiry to submit proposals on the new museum operations' mission and organization ”. So it says in the autumn budget that was revealed during Wednesday morning. The inquiry will submit a proposal next year and then a decision will be made to begin the actual construction of the business.

Nationalmuseum is an actor hoping for money. In June, the museum requested permission to exceed this year's budget by close to SEK 49 million. The autumn budget shows that they will receive SEK 11 million to compensate for their renovation costs.

The Royal Opera in Stockholm will also receive money for the planned renovation and renovation. The opera is granted a loan limit of SEK 126 million and receives SEK 9 million annually from next year.

"I think that we need a long-term joint strategy for the libraries in Sweden, which is absolutely reasonable and important," Amanda Lind told Culture News in March this year. The budget shows that the library fee is increased by SEK 5.7 million. The money will be spent on improved conditions for writers, translators, cartoonists and photographers.

Minister of Culture Amanda Lind (MP) has already revealed one of the news in the budget, namely the reintroduction of state aid to the cultural school. This means that SEK 100 million is allocated annually to the municipalities that conduct cultural school activities.

According to the government, the cultural budget for 2020 includes an increase of SEK 292 million, compared with the 2019 budget. The Moderates and Christian Democrats then reduced the cultural budget by just over SEK 200 million.

In the film sector, no major investments are noticed in the autumn budget. On the other hand, the government states that it wants to prioritize investments in other cultural areas, and therefore the total film grant is reduced by SEK 1.2 million. The same level of support for the film sector is expected to remain until 2022.

After the election, one of the major issues in Swedish film was the so-called production discounts, ie state subsidization of film recordings. The Swedish Growth Agency and the Swedish Film Institute have proposed that Sweden, as soon as possible, introduce a 25 per cent discount on film footage in the country, in order to compete in international competition - where discounts are the norm in almost all European countries.

The proposal has not been accepted in the government budget, and production rebates are not mentioned at all.

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