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Museums will receive another 13.1 million euros from the Covid-19 crisis management fund, theaters 5.4 million. A million goes to the Lepold Museum.
Federal cultural institutions will receive another 18.5 million euros in special payments to deal with the crisis in the crown. According to a broadcast on Wednesday, they get Federal Museums another 13.1 million euros from the Covid-19 crisis management fund of the federal government and the federal theaters 5.4 million euros. In summer there were already 10 million euros in special payments for the Federal Museums and 5 million euros have been disbursed for the federal theater.
“The Federal Museums and federal theaters are central components and figures of our cultural landscape, “said Secretary of State for Art and Culture Andrea Mayer (Greens).” Therefore, it is natural for the federal government as the owner that these very important institutions should be helped during this difficult year. “
The special payments, which are supposed to ensure the functioning and preservation of jobs, “are based on the house forecasts for all of 2020 and have been revised upwards again due to the recently imposed closure,” he said.
Federal government obliged to finance the Leopold by law
Even the Leopold Museum, which is not a Federal Museum That is to say, but the federal government is legally obliged to finance it, it receives a special one-time payment of one million euros from the Covid-19 crisis management fund.
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