Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland)

Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego) is a governmental administration office concerned with various aspects of Polish culture. It was formed on 31 October 2005, from transformation of Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Poland. The ministry can trace its history back to 1918 when the Ministry of Art and Culture was established. It was suppressed in 1922 due to rationalization of public expense and structural reform of the government.[3] It was reestablished within the temporary communist government in 1944 and has existed continuously henceforth until the merger with the Ministry of Sport in 2021. The last minister of Culture and National Heritage was Piotr Gliński, reappointed Minister of Culture, National Heritage and Sport in October 2020.[4]

Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego
Official governmental wall plaque
Ministerial Logotype
Agency overview
Headquartersul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 15/17, Warsaw
Employeesca. 500
Annual budgetPLN 4.029 billion[1]
Agency executive
Parent agencyCouncil of Ministers
Websitewww.mkidn.gov.pl
The Potocki Palace in central Warsaw houses the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
Seat of the Ministry – the main palace building

List of ministers
Portrait Name Party Term of offices Prime minister

(cabinet)

Ministers of Culture and Art
SNN Medard Downarowicz 17 November 1918 16 January 1919 Jędrzej Moraczewski
nonpartisan Zenon Przesmycki 16 January 1919 9 December 1919 Ignacy Jan Paderewski
nonpartisan Jan Fryderyk Heurich 24 June 1920 11 August 1921 Władysław Grabski

Wincenty Witos

PSL „Piast” Maciej Rataj 11 August 1921 13 September 1921 Wincenty Witos
PSChD Antoni Ponikowski 19 September 1921 5 March 1922 Antoni Ponikowski
Ministers of Culture and Art in Poland under Communism (1944–89)[5]
SD Wincenty Rzymowski 21 July 1944 2 May 1945 Polish Committee of National Liberation
SL Edmund Zalewski 2 May 1945 28 June 1945 Provisional Government of National Unity
SL Władysław Kowalski 28 June 1945 5 February 1947 Provisional Government of National Unity
SL/ZSL Stefan Dybowski 6 February 1947 20 November 1952 Józef Cyrankiewicz (Cyrankiewicz I)
PZPR Włodzimierz Sokorski 21 November 1952 19 April 1956 Bolesław Bierut (Bierut)
PZPR Karol Kuryluk 19 April 1956 29 April 1958 Józef Cyrankiewicz (Cyrankiewicz II)
PZPR Kazimierz Rusinek (acting) 3 May 1958 2 July 1958 Józef Cyrankiewicz (Cyrankiewicz III)
PZPR Tadeusz Galiński 2 July 1958 12 December 1964 Józef Cyrankiewicz (Cyrankiewicz IV)
PZPR Lucjan Motyka 12 December 1964 26 October 1971 Józef Cyrankiewicz (Cyrankiewicz V)
PZPR Czesław Wiśniewski (acting) 26 October 1971 22 December 1971 Józef Cyrankiewicz (Cyrankiewicz V)
PZPR Stanisław Wroński 22 December 1971 16 February 1974 Piotr Jaroszewicz (Jaroszewicz I)
PZPR Józef Tejchma 16 February 1974 26 January 1978 Piotr Jaroszewicz (Jaroszewicz II)
PZPR Janusz Wilhelmi ( acting) 26 January 1978 16 March 1978 Piotr Jaroszewicz (Jaroszewicz II)
PZPR Jan Mietkowski 29 March 1978 4 July 1978 Piotr Jaroszewicz (Jaroszewicz II)
PZPR Zygmunt Najdowski 20 July 1978 8 October 1980 Piotr Jaroszewicz (Jaroszewicz II)
PZPR Józef Tejchma 8 October 1980 9 October 1982 Edward Babiuch (Babiuch)

Józef Pińkowski (Pińkowski)

Wojciech Jaruzelski (Jaruzelski)

nonpartisan Kazimierz Żygulski 9 October 1982 29 September 1986 Wojciech Jaruzelski (Jaruzelski)

Zbigniew Messner (Messner)

nonpartisan Aleksander Krawczuk 29 September 1986 1 August 1989 Zbigniew Messner (Messner)

Mieczysław Rakowski (Rakowski)

Ministers of Culture and Art (1989–1999)
nonpartisan Izabella Cywińska 12 September 1989 12 January 1991 Tadeusz Mazowiecki (Mazowiecki)
nonpartisan Marek Rostworowski 12 January 1991 23 December 1991 Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (Bielecki)
nonpartisan Andrzej Siciński 23 December 1991 11 July 1992 Jan Olszewski (Olszewski)
nonpartisan Piotr Łukasiewicz (acting) 11 July 1992 17 February 1993 Hanna Suchocka (Suchocka)
Jerzy Góral Christian National Union 17 February 1993 26 October 1993 Hanna Suchocka (Suchocka)
Kazimierz Dejmek nonpartisan 26 October 1993 26 January 1996 Waldemar Pawlak (Pawlak II)

Józef Oleksy (Oleksy)

Zdzisław Podkański Polish People's Party 15 February 1996 31 October 1997 Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (Cimoszewicz)
Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa Freedom Union 31 October 1997 26 March 1998 Jerzy Buzek (Buzek)
Andrzej Zakrzewski Conservative People's Party 26 March 1998 19 October 1999 Jerzy Buzek (Buzek)
Ministers of Culture and National Heritage (1999–2001)
Andrzej Zakrzewski Conservative People's Party 19 October 1999 10 February 2000 Jerzy Buzek (Buzek)
Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski Conservative People's Party 10 February 2000 12 July 2001 Jerzy Buzek (Buzek)
Andrzej Zieliński nonpartisan 12 July 2001 19 October 2001 Jerzy Buzek (Buzek)
Ministers of Culture (2001–2005)
Andrzej Celiński Democratic Left Alliance 19 October 2001 6 July 2002 Leszek Miller (Miller)
Waldemar Dąbrowski nonpartisan 6 July 2002 31 October 2005 Leszek Miller (Miller)

Marek Belka (Belka I, Belka II)

Ministers of Culture and National Heritage (2005–Present)
Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski Law and Justice 31 October 2005 7 September 2007 Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (Marcinkiewicz)

Jarosław Kaczyński (Kaczyński)

Jarosław Kaczyński (acting) Law and Justice 7 September 2007 12 September 2007 Jarosław Kaczyński (Kaczyński)
Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski Law and Justice 12 September 2007 16 November 2007 Jarosław Kaczyński (Kaczyński)
Bogdan Zdrojewski Civic Platform 16 November 2007 14 June 2014 Donald Tusk (Tusk I, Tusk II)
Małgorzata Omilanowska nonpartisan 14 June 2014 16 November 2015 Donald Tusk (Tusk II)

Ewa Kopacz (Kopacz)

Piotr Gliński Law and Justice 16 November 2015 present Beata Szydło (Szydło)

Mateusz Morawiecki (Morawiecki)

References
  1. "Informacja o wynikach kontroli. Wykonanie budżetu państwa w 2019 r.w części 24 − Kultura i ochrona dziedzictwa narodowego oraz wykonanie w 2019 r. planów finansowych Funduszu Promocji Kultury i Narodowego Funduszu Ochrony Zabytków" (PDF). BIP.MKiDN.gov.pl (in Polish). 7 March 2017.
  2. "Ludzie — Kancelaria Prezesa Rady Ministrów". premier.gov.pl. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  3. "14 lutego 1922 r. Likwidacja resortu kultury". NowaHistoria.Interia.pl. 14 February 2017.
  4. "Polish president appoints reshuffled cabinet".
  5. "Lista ministrów kultury". MKiDN.gov.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 26 September 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018.


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