Creation of the Ministry of Culture in the Peruvian Government structure

The Ministry of Culture in Peruvian Government structure develops cultural policies articulated in protection, preservation and dissemination of cultural heritage and diversity of cultural expressions, which in relation to Articles 2, 17 ° and 89 ° of Peruvian Constitution refer to the development and promotion of culture and protection of ethnic and cultural diversity, preserving cultural and linguistic expressions of the country, promoting national integration and respect for cultural identity of Rural and Native Communities.

The Ministry of Culture functions related to the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, adopted at the 33rd General Conference of UNESCO on October 20, 2005, in Paris, are:

Governing functions:
Formulate, plan, direct, coordinate, implement, monitor and evaluate national and sectoral policies of the country in culture, through programmatic areas: the nation's cultural heritage, tangible and intangible, cultural management and cultural industries, including contemporary cultural creation, and ethnic and cultural diversity of the nation, including performing arts.

Technical-Regulations functions:
Promote, manage and channeling national and international cooperation, technical and financial, refundable and nonrefundable for culture and art development through competent institutions in accordance with existing rules.
Promotion of cultural creation in all fields, improvement of creators and cultural managers and development of cultural industries.

Exclusive functions:

• Organize, conduct, monitor and evaluate public actions aimed to promote arts, artistic creation and development, promoting the presence of different cultural organizations, facilitating public access to these cultural expressions and promoting private initiatives on cultural sector.
• Give merit awards for creators, artists, people and organizations that contribute to the country's cultural development
• Implement and manage the National Registry System related to cultural heritage goods, creators, art producers of related fields from cultural expressions, and natural and legal persons that perform cultural activities.
• Developing measures of production, transmission and broadcasting to promote multiethnic and multicultural expressions of the Nation to assist the all Peruvians integration and assert our national identity.
• Ensure the freedom of expression and information through the Government media and promote the participation of society through spaces where they can express freely their points of views and proposals in order to strengthen democracy and a culture of respect and peace.

Specific shared functions:

• Promote a culture of respect and access to cultural rights, freedom of belief and intellectual, artistic, technical and scientific creation.
• Promote the record, research, preservation, maintenance, dissemination and enhancement of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, archaeological, historical and artistic, documentary, bibliographic, plastic arts, music, folk, folklore, cultural industries and bibliographic and documentary heritage of the nation with the participation of civil society organizations and communities.
• Promote scientific and literary creation, reading and knowledge of bibliographic and documentary heritage of the nation, promoting the development and protection of the publishing book industry and related publishing products, such as incentives that encourage and disseminate the intellectual creativity, knowledge and culture.