In the care of cultural heritage, over four billion crowns are spent annually

Prague - Annually, between four and five billion crowns is allocated from public budgets for the restoration of monuments and cultural heritage. Approximately half of the funds are provided by the state budget, while the other half comes from local budgets. Last year, regions, cities, and municipalities contributed a little more than the state - a total of 2.5 billion, while the state provided two billion crowns for the care of cultural heritage. This is based on data from the Czech Statistical Yearbook 2012.
     The largest share of state expenditures comes from the Ministry of Culture, which primarily finances, to a large extent, the operations of the National Heritage Institute managing a hundred castles, chateaus, and other monuments. In 2011, the total turnover of the NH Institute (1.27 billion) included a state subsidy for its operations of 619 million; nearly half a billion crowns comes from the NH Institute's own revenues.
     The Ministry of Culture also has its own heritage programs from which monument owners can apply for grants, amounting to approximately 640 million crowns last year.
     The data on state expenditures for the care of monuments also includes expenses from the Office of the President of the Republic, which pays for the reconstruction of buildings at Prague Castle from its budget. Last year, the office spent approximately 200 million crowns in this manner. Funds for the preservation and restoration of monuments are also provided by the Ministry of Agriculture (last year 1.7 million CZK) and the Ministry of Defense (last year 5.7 million CZK), as well as the State Agricultural Intervention Fund (last year 160 million CZK).
     In 2010, approximately the same amount was allocated for the restoration of monuments and care for cultural heritage from the state budget, but local budgets contributed three billion. The year before, the state provided 1.9 billion, while local budgets exceeded three billion crowns. In 2008, the state provided 1.88 billion and local budgets 2.13 billion crowns, and in 2007, the state contributed 1.79 billion and local budgets 1.99 billion crowns.