This is how the industry responds to the new crisis support

Young Klara, the Röhsska Museum and Áttje, the Swedish Mountain and Sami Museum are some of the government-financed scenes and museums that will be covered by the Ministry of Culture's new support of SEK 319 million.

Crisis support may compensate for between 70 and 80 percent of cultural institutions' estimated loss of revenue. In this way, today's message is very positive, says Elisabeth Pirak Kuoljok, acting museum director at Áttje.

- It is absolutely fantastic! It feels very positive that you also see that our museum in Jokkmokk is also affected by the pandemic. After all, the tourism industry took a full stop here. It went from one week to another, people just disappeared, says Elisabeth Pirak Kuoljok to the Culture News.

According to Elisabeth Pirak Kuoljok, it is low season in April to May, which means that the number of visitors, due to the pandemic, went from few to zero visitors.

- So far we have been able to handle the situation with restructuring in the personnel force, it is future we are more concerned. If tourism continues to fail, we will be hit hard even in the summer and could end up in a situation where we need to leave people.

During the spring, several government-funded cultural institutions were supported by early payments of already existing cultural support, but they have also alerted that the situation requires more resources.

Sanne Houby-Nielsen, director of the Nordic Museum Foundation, hopes that the grant will lead to being able to bring all staff, who are currently laid off, into 2021.

- The layoff rules removed a first concern, but for us it is absolutely crucial that we can continue with the staff and workforce we had before. And I feel very hopeful that we can now do that, says Sanne Houby-Nielsen to TT.

Nina Due, director of the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg, also welcomes the support.

- It is good for the state to pay attention to the situation prevailing at Sweden's museums, says Nina Due to the Culture News.

How much of the announced support will go to the Röhsska Museum is not yet clear.

- Röhsska has a national mission to create a meeting place as Sweden's only special museum for design and crafts. It is a very important task but our annual contribution is modest. We are waiting to know what the new support means for our business, says Nina Due.