Cultural Activities
The Ministry of Culture is responsible for, or a major sponsor of, a number of annual cultural activities, including:
- Fête de la Musique
- Avignon theater festival
- Joconde, a huge online database of objects in French museums.
- Base Mérimée, a database of listed heritage monuments.
Read more about this topic: Minister Of Culture (France)
Famous quotes containing the words cultural and/or activities:
“The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not “Am I really that oppressed?” but “Am I really that boring?””
—Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)
“Both gossip and joking are intrinsically valuable activities. Both are essentially social activities that strengthen interpersonal bonds—we do not tell jokes and gossip to ourselves. As popular activities that evade social restrictions, they often refer to topics that are inaccessible to serious public discussion. Gossip and joking often appear together: when we gossip we usually tell jokes and when we are joking we often gossip as well.”
—Aaron Ben-Ze’Ev, Israeli philosopher. “The Vindication of Gossip,” Good Gossip, University Press of Kansas (1994)