Organisation

The Heritage Agency is one out of three governing bodies under the Danish Ministry of Culture. The Heritage Agency undertakes the following tasks in its five divisions and staff:

• Listing and delisting of buildings
• Restoration and construction work on listed buildings
• Administration of the Heritage Agency's own listed buildings

• Listing and protecting sites and monuments

• Central and local planning
• New projects in collaboration with local authorites and private partnerships

• Coordination and quality assessment of museums
• Funding and development of museums into local knowledge centers

• Restoration of megalithic tombs and ruins and of the buildings owned by the Heritage Agency
• Supervision of protected sites and monuments
• Restoration policy
• International co-operation

• Assistance to the Direction and Management
• Internal and external communication
• HR management and finance
• Heritage database development