The Ministry of Culture (MoC; ) is a governmental organization in

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...

was established in June

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and responsible for various aspects of Saudi culture. Minister of Culture is Prince Badr bin Farhan Al-Saud who was appointed as its new and first minister. In line with Vision 2030, the Ministry of Culture will soon announce the formation of 11 specialized cultural bodies. The planned-to-be formed units will cover the areas of

museums A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

movies A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...

and visual shows,

libraries A library is a collection of materials, books or media that are accessible for use and not just for display purposes. A library provides physical (hard copies) or digital access (soft copies) materials, and may be a physical location or a vir ...

fashion Fashion is a form of self-expression and autonomy at a particular period and place and in a specific context, of clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body posture. The term implies a look defined by the fashion in ...

music Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...

, heritage, literature and publication,

performance arts Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...

visual arts The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts al ...

, architecture and interior design, and food and the art of cooking. One of the significant activities the ministry is planning to organize is the International Red Sea Film Festival in

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. The festival will be the first of its kind in

. The first season will be held in

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. The Ministry has been taking measures to improve the taste of

people A person (plural, : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of pr ...

, promote

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and rehabilitate heritage sites. In August 2019, the Ministry announced the establishment of three academies dedicated to arts, heritage, and music in the country to receive

students A student is a person enrolled in a school or other educational institution. In the United Kingdom and most commonwealth countries, a "student" attends a secondary school or higher (e.g., college or university); those in primary or elementary ...

and trainees applications. The academies come as part of the Quality of Life Program initiatives and will be offering qualifications in

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 hi ...

. In February

, 11 new cultural authorities were approved by the Saudi Cabinet to promote culture in Saudi Arabia as a lifestyle. These include authorities for films, fashion, music, heritage and the arts.

History

In 1962, the ministry of information was founded to be in charge of information and media before it was renamed to "Ministry of Culture and Information" in 2003 to include culture affairs under its umbrella. Later, on 1 June 2018 the culture was separated from the media resulting in two different ministries; Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Media.

Nomow Cultural Fund

In 2019, the Ministry launched the fund to finance and support talents. The fund plans to support professionals working in the fields of writing, publishing, visual content and film making. Moreover, the fund will support every step of the production phases of the cultural work.

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History

Nomow Cultural Fund

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