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Federal museums will receive a further € 13.1 million from the federal government’s Covid 19 crisis management fund and federal theaters € 5.4 million. In the summer, 10 million euros had already been paid in special payments for federal museums (Albertina, Belvedere, Museum of Natural History and Art History, MAK, MUMOK, Technical Museum, National Library) and 5 million euros for the federal theaters (State Opera, Volksoper, Burgtheater). “Federal museums and federal theaters are central components and figures in our cultural landscape. Therefore, for the federal government, as the owner, it is natural that these important institutions will have to be helped during this difficult year,” said the Secretary of State of Culture. Andrea Mayer in a transmission with. The special payments are based on the house forecasts for the entire year 2020 and have been revised upwards again due to the recently imposed lockdown.
