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The Ministry of Culture is the central public authority responsible for the development and implementation of strategy and policies in the field of culture.

At the legislative and institutional level, the Ministry of Culture ensures the regulation and normative framework specific to the field, as well as the international representation of the Romanian State in matters of art, culture and heritage. At the management level, the Ministry deals with the administration and management of assets, budgets and allocated funds (through grants or non-reimbursable financing) and with the guidance, support and control of subordinate institutions.

The system of institutions subordinate to the Ministry of Culture:

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A10 by Artmark Auction House is the main cultural promotion platform and partner in supporting charitable actions in the Eastern European art market.

The year 2023 in the Romanian art market was remarkable with a tour de force of 50 auctions (it is the 3rd year successively in which Artmark manages to organize a volume of 50 auctions annually), achieving a total of 10.2 million euros in sales, of which 9.1 million euros in public sales, with an average award rate of 70%, completed with over 1.1 million euros in private sales, with the insistence on the diversity of promoted themes and the variation of their aggregation (29 themes, including a new one, intended for young audiences), as well as with a continuation of international development - this it was the year 2023, with solid and laborious results that consolidated the market increases, in different segments, of the previous years.

Perhaps due to the recessionary and inflationary economic context, 2023 was the year in which the classical and modern art market segment, stagnant in the last 3 years ahead of the momentum of the contemporary art segment, has returned vigorously to the fore. The year 2023 retained the attention through significant sales of some exponents of Romanian modernism and impressionism, achieving (or being in the area of older) thematic records, with artists such as:

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The Contemporary art segment of the market performed in turn, achieving some absolute records for art scene-forming artists – and of cultural market.

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In Romania libraries are still seen as spaces that gather book collections intended for lending, but the reality of the last years proves that the role of the library is in continuous change and transformation due to the introduction of new technologies, due to the competition with different media, with other cultural institutions, as well as due to the change of mentality of the new generations.

The national library system is made up of National Libraries, University Libraries, Public Libraries (County, Municipal, Town and Communal), Specialized Libraries and School Libraries. Thus, from a numerical point of view compared to the year 2022 there is a decrease in their number by 869 units, the biggest decrease being registered by school libraries, of 526 units but still worrying being the closure of 6 county library branches, 7 city libraries and 253 communal libraries. It should be noted that the 260 public law libraries, city and communal, were closed in violation of Law 334/2002 The Law of Libraries.

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In the patrimony of the national library system there were a total of 154,390,519 volumes in 2022, with 6,463,422 volumes less compared to 2019. The acquisition of volumes by libraries in 2022 is 1,486,420 volumes, with 271,083 volumes less than in 2019.

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The use of libraries in the year 2022 can be summarized by the release of 18,642,506 volumes, 14,621,725 volumes less than in 2019 , obviously also registering a decrease in the number of active users. Thus, in the year 2022, a number of 2,361,976 active users are registered, 739,994 less users compared to the value of 2019. Thus, the user of the year 2022 borrowed an average of 7.89 volumes per year, we can also consider that 12, 27% of the Romanian population (19,237,691 inhabitants in 2019) frequent the services offered by the library, 3.85% less compared to 2019.

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The cultural and educational activity of the national library system, apart from the traditional information and documentation services, can be synthesized through ongoing educational programs and projects of the library alongside the participants. From the graphs below, it is visible that mainly secondary school students participate in them.

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In 2022, a number of 1,225,403 people, representing 6.36% of the population, participated in educational cultural programs organized by libraries Romania.

The services provided by the national library system in 2022 involved a number of 3,587,379 people or 18.64% of the country's population benefiting from cultural and info-documentary services organized by libraries.

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