The Ministry of Culture and Sports ( el, Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού) is the

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entrusted with preserving the country's

cultural heritage Cultural heritage is the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Not all heritages of past generations are "heritage"; rather, heritage is a product of selection by soci ...

, promoting

the arts The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both ...

, and overseeing

sport Sport pertains to any form of Competition, competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and Skill, skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to specta ...

through the subordinate General Secretariat for Sports. The incumbent minister is

Lina Mendoni Lina Mendoni ( el, Λίνα Μενδώνη) is a Greek politician. , she serves as Minister of Culture and Sports in the cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. She has a PhD in archaeology from the University of Athens The National and Kapodistria ...

. The Deputy Minister for Modern Culture is

Nicholas Yatromanolakis Nicholas Yatromanolakis (Greek language, Greek: Νικόλας Γιατρομανωλάκης, born: 1975) is a Greeks, Greek politician and political scientist. He is the current Ministry of Culture and Sports (Greece), Deputy Minister of Cultur ...

, and the Deputy Minister for Sports is .

History

This ministry was established in 1971 as the Ministry of Culture and Sciences () and it was renamed the Ministry of Culture () on 26 July 1985. On 7 October 2009, it was merged with the Ministry of Touristic Development to form the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (). It ceased to exist on 21 June 2012, when the

Ministry of Tourism The Minister of Tourism is the head of the governmental department that specializes in tourism, recreation and/or culture. The position exists in many different countries under several names: *Ministry of Tourism and Environment (Albania) * Minist ...

was re-established and the culture portfolio was absorbed by the Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs to form the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports. The Ministry of Culture and Sports was re-established on 25 June 2013. On 27 January 2015, it was again merged with the education ministry to form the Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs. On 23 September 2015, the culture and education portfolios were restored as separate ministries.

List of Ministers for Culture and Sciences (1971–1985)

List of Ministers for Culture (1985–2009)

List of Ministers for Culture and Tourism (2009–2012)

List of Ministers for Education, Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports (2012–2013)

List of Ministers for Culture and Sports (2013–2015)

List of Ministers for Culture and Sports (since September 2015)

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Culture and Tourism Culture and Sports Lists of government ministers of Greece Greek culture

1971 establishments in Greece Greece, Culture and Tourism