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Key contacts are listed under the following cultural headings:

  • All (i.e. covering all or most cultural areas: associations & networks, government, portals, special initiatives)
  • Heritage (archaeology, archives, conservation, man-made heritage, museums)
  • Media (advertising, broadcasting, digital media, film & video, newspapers & magazines, TV & radio)
  • Performing (dance, music, opera, puppetry, theatre)
  • Visual (architecture, crafts, design, galleries & art museums, photography, resources for artists)
  • Words (books & reading, language, libraries, resources for writers)
  • Links to other European countries

In addition, there are separate sections for:

  • Education & Training

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Government

Cultuur Lokaal 
The support centre for local cultural policy (in Dutch: Steunpunt voor lokaal cultuurbeleid or simply Cultuur Lokaal) was founded November 7, 2001, within the framework of the decree of July 13, 2001 aiming to stimulate a high quality and comprehensive local cultural policy. This decree of the Flemish Government stimulates municipalities to perform strategic policy planning, supported by a cultural policy co-ordinator, and combines the legislation for culture centres and libraries. 

Culture Lab

Commissariat général aux Relations Internationales

Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs (OSTC)   +EN

Ministry of the Flemish Community: Department of Culture  +EN

Ministry of the French Community: DG Culture and Communication +EN

Ministry of the German-Speaking Community

Portals 

Arts Flanders 

Portail Culture en Communauté Wallonie-Bruxelles

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Heritage

Site du Patrimoine du Ministère de la Communauté française

Archives

Belgian Association for Documentation  +EN

Centre d'Archives de la Communauté Française

Flemish Association for Libraries, Archives and Documentation.

Flemish-Dutch Association for Archives, Libraries and Documentation  +EN

State Archives

Conservation

Monument and landscape conservation in Flanders

Royal Institute for the Study and Conservation of Belgium's Artistic Heritage +EN

Museums
Art museums will be found under VISUAL

Flemish Museums Association

Foundation Promethea (promoting arts and heritage)

French language association of Belgian musea and their employees

International Council of Museums, Belgian National Committee +EN

Portail des Musées en Wallonie

Site des Musées en CWB +EN

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Media

Audiovisual

Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel  

Flemish Audiovisual Fund  +EN

Film & Video

Belgian Video Federation

Royal Film Archive

Wallonie-Bruxelles Images

Wallimage  (Walloon regional body for the audiovisual industry) +EN

TV & Radio

Belgian Radio and Television for French community

Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep (Radio and Television for Flanders) +EN

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Performing

Dance

Charleroi/Danse (Centre chorégraphique de la CWB) +EN

Contredanse

Institute for Historical Dance Practice +EN

Site Dance (Ministère de la Communauté française)

Music

Belgian Centre for Contemporary Music Documentation +EN

Flemish Music Centre

French Music Council

Site Musique (Ministère de la Communauté française) 

muziekarchief (Flemish music archive)

Theatre

Agence Wallonie (Bruxelles Théâtre/Danse) 

Centre des Arts Scéniques

Centre International de Formation en Arts du Spectacle

Chambre des Théâtres pour l’Enfance et la Jeunesse

Site Théâtre (Ministère de la Communauté française)

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Visual

Architecture

Centre International pour la Ville, l'Architecture et le Paysage

Flemish Architecture Institute

Institut La Cambre  

Institut Saint-Luc

Crafts

World Crafts Council Belgique Francophone

Galleries & Art Museums

Musée des Arts Contemporaines +EN

Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium  +EN

Selected Artists

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Words

Libraries

Belgian National Library

Flemish Centre for Public Libraries

Site des Bibliothèques Publiques

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By Theme

Education & Training

Flemish Institute for Independent Entrepreneurship +EN

Higher Institute of Town Planning and Urban Renewal +EN

Institute for Cultural Studies

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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 23 January 2008 )