Finansowanie kultury w Polsce ze źródeł publicznych

The article focuses on public expenditures on culture in Poland. It begins with an overview of budgetary and extra-budgetary funding, including state appropriated funds and other public institutions established to support certain culture area, as well as culture institutions. As the aim of the article is to explore the wider aspect of the issue, special attention is given to the expenditures on arts education. Next the author provides an analysis of financing culture in the period 2007–2014, both on central and local level. In final section the Polish public expenditures on culture are compared with European Union corresponding data.