cultural institutions
Society's knowledge keepers
Cultural institutions are organizations that preserve, produce, or transmit a society's artistic, intellectual, or historical heritage—museums, libraries, universities, theaters, orchestras, archives.
The term often appears in discussions of public funding or civic identity: The city's cultural institutions struggled during budget cuts.
A cultural institution can also be a longstanding practice or tradition: Sunday dinner became a cultural institution in our family.
- museumsInstitutions preserving cultural artifacts
- galleriesSpaces for displaying art
- art worldCultural sphere of visual arts
- permanent collectionInstitution's owned artworks
- traveling exhibitPortable museum display
libraries · archives · theaters · opening night · heritage · exhibitions · collections · curators · artifacts · gift shop · guided tour · preservation · symphony · opera · academy · foundation · board of directors · endowment
- cultural elementstraditions, heritage, customs, ritual, religions
- cultural historyart history, music history, social history, collective memory, literary history
- Cultural Policyarts funding, arts council, arts councils, heritage preservation, public funding
- artfine art, Renaissance, painters, masterpieces, paint
- art worldartist, painter, painting, paintings, sculpture
- museumsmuseums, art museums, exhibits, galleries, exhibitions
cultural institutionscasinos
Wagering establishments
shopping malls · theme parks · strip malls · amusement parks · entertainment industry
cultural institutionsstreet art
Illicit public murals
guerrilla art · folk traditions · oral culture · underground movements · grassroots movements
cultural institutionsbook burnings
Deliberate destruction of literature
cultural erasure · cultural genocide · iconoclasm · book burning · damnatio memoriae
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