As she announced at the French Institute Workshops on July 17 and 18, and recalled during the presentation of the ministry’s 2019 budget, the Minister of Culture decided to create a mission dedicated to international cultural expertise, placed with the Secretary General.

In cultural engineering, we have the ability to export our know-how and our skills. I want us to strengthen ourselves in this area, which makes us shine around the world. »

The Ministry of Culture needs to provide a more complete and organized response to the many requests for advice, training and support from our foreign partners, both institutional and cultural professionals.

In order to foster new initiatives, inspired by recent successes in the field of heritage, such as the Louvre Abu Dhabi, or in the field of cultural policies, such as the two twinning projects underway in Morocco and Tunisia, the mission will work in close coordination with all the actors of culture: the 81 operators, the 13 regional directorates of cultural affairs, the numerous services of the Ministry with national competence, such as the research laboratory for historical monuments, the research and restoration centre for museums in France, and the central services of the Ministry. It will consist of pools of experts, determine a common strategy and clarify our offer of cultural expertise.

The Expertise mission will be the entry point for international requests and will play a pivotal role between the various networks mobilized on this policy of valorization and promotion of our know-how abroad, namely the network of diplomatic posts abroad, local authorities and private structures.

It will also work to establish partnerships with Expertise France and AFD to facilitate the response to calls for tenders and organize a more forward-looking approach to this new market.

The Minister of Culture will make an intervention on the issues of cultural expertise before the end of the year, during a day dedicated to international action of the Ministry of Culture.