Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland)

Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
	Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego
	Official governmental wall plaque
	Ministerial Logotype
Agency overview
Headquarters	ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 15/17, Warsaw
Employees	ca. 500
Annual budget	PLN 3,8 billion
Agency executive	Piotr Gliński, Minister of Culture and National Heritage; Deputy Prime Minister;
Parent agency	Council of Ministers
Website	www.mkidn.gov.pl

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. The current minister is Piotr Gliński.

The Potocki Palace in central Warsaw houses the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

Seat of the Ministry - the main palace building

List of ministersEdit

Ministers of Culture and Art in Poland under Communism (1944-89)^[4]Edit

	Party	Name	Term of Offices		Prime Minister (cabinet)
	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	02 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)
	Christian National Union	Jerzy Góral	17 February 1993	26 October 1993	Hanna Suchocka (Suchocka)
	Nonpartisan	Kazimierz Dejmek	26 October 1993	26 January 1996	Waldemar Pawlak (Pawlak II) Józef Oleksy (Oleksy)
	Polish People's Party	Zdzisław Podkański	15 February 1996	31 October 1997	Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (Cimoszewicz)
	Freedom Union	Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa	31 October 1997	26 March 1998	Jerzy Buzek (Buzek)
	Conservative People's Party	Andrzej Zakrzewski	26 March 1998	19 October 1999	Jerzy Buzek (Buzek)
Ministers of Culture and National Heritage (1999-2001)
	Conservative People's Party	Andrzej Zakrzewski	19 October 1999	10 February 2000	Jerzy Buzek (Buzek)
	Conservative People's Party	Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski	10 February 2000	12 July 2001	Jerzy Buzek (Buzek)
	Nonpartisan	Andrzej Zieliński	12 July 2001	19 October 2001	Jerzy Buzek (Buzek)
Ministers of Culture (2001-2005)
	Democratic Left Alliance	Andrzej Celiński	19 October 2001	6 July 2002	Leszek Miller (Miller)
	Nonpartisan	Waldemar Dąbrowski	6 July 2002	31 October 2005	Leszek Miller (Miller) Marek Belka (Belka I, Belka II)
Ministers of Culture and National Heritage (2005 - present)
	Law and Justice	Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski	31 October 2005	7 September 2007	Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz (Marcinkiewicz) Jarosław Kaczyński (Kaczyński)
	Law and Justice	Jarosław Kaczyński (acting)	7 September 2007	12 September 2007	Jarosław Kaczyński (Kaczyński)
	Law and Justice	Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski	12 September 2007	16 November 2007	Jarosław Kaczyński (Kaczyński)
	Civic Platform	Bogdan Zdrojewski	16 November 2007	14 June 2014	Donald Tusk (Tusk I , Tusk II)
	Nonpartisan	Małgorzata Omilanowska	14 June 2014	16 November 2015	Donald Tusk (Tusk II) Ewa Kopacz (Kopacz)
	Law and Justice	Piotr Gliński	16 November 2015	present	Beata Szydło (Szydło) Mateusz Morawiecki (Morawiecki)