Looking out for each other, looking forward to the future

To make recovery, renewal and growth possible again, €170 million per year is structurally invested in the cultural and creative sector. 

This includes a focus on improving the labor market position including a fair salary for creators across the creative sector, from media and fashion to music. There will also be a recovery plan.

Below is the entire paragraph from the agreement:

Culture and creative industries 

Culture is essential to our society and an investment in our society: the connecting, inspiring and stimulating power of art and culture brings people together, challenges and offers new perspectives. Corona showed the innovative power of the cultural sector, but also its vulnerability.... 

• To make recovery, renewal and growth possible again, we invest structurally €170 million per year in the creative and cultural industries.
• In doing so, we pay attention to the improving the labour market position including fair wages for creators across the creative industries, from media and fashion to music. We encourage cultural entrepreneurship.
• There will be a recovery plan to help and strengthen professionals, institutions and amateur associations alike.
• We want to make culture accessible to everyone, including through a good regional distribution throughout the Netherlands and additional investments in cultural participation.
• We want to give more attention to our common history. That is why the State is contributing to a National History Museum and a Slavery Museum. In the run-up to the commemoration year 2023, we are paying extra attention to dialogue about the history of slavery and contemporary racism.
• We encourage music and cultural education at school, including visits to museums.
• We strive for a future-oriented library (facility) in each municipality.
• We involve the creative industry at major social tasks. 

The entire coalition agreement can be found here