Thanks to its privileged geographical position and its 3000-year history, Tunisia has always been a crossroads for cultures and civilizations where peoples, creeds, ideas, languages, customs and traditions have always coexisted in full harmony.
African land being deeply set into the Mediterranean, a fully-fledged stakeholder in its Arab-Muslim environment for more than fourteen centuries, opened up on the Occident and the rest of the world, modern Tunisia embodies a multi-dimensional and enriching culture from which it also draws its wealth, authenticity and openness onto the universal world.

Since independence, the Tunisian State has put a stake on culture as one of the priorities to top his agenda aimed at promoting man, fostering his emancipation and enhancing the consecration of the his identity and citizenship. Backed up by all citizens, the Tunisian State has embarked on an all-encompassing and on-going program with a view to providing the most adequate conditions to  encourage and boost creativity in all sectors, uphold creators and protect their moral and material rights, safeguard and value cultural heritage and lay down a large platform based on solid institutions and capable of streamlining research, providing training, developing cultural and artistic production and facilitating its dissemination both inside and outside the country.

With the advent of November 7th, 1987, the cultural life in Tunisia has enjoyed propitious conditions for a fresh start thanks to moral support, a coherent legal framework in addition to the considerable increase of resources, the various forms to increase production and notably the extension of freedoms and the participation of the citizens.

The increase of the funds allocated to culture have exceeded, for the first time in the country’s history, 1% of the State budget, along with the large-scale projects set forth and those underway, like the Culture City of Tunis, bear witness to this momentum and confirm the degree of development of the Tunisian culture in the early years of this millennium.
Encapsulating a wide range of civilizations, Tunisia has always prided itself of its hectic cultural agenda and its contribution to the universal culture. The tokens of a glorious past, such as the monuments and museums which are legion in Tunisia, justify the role entrusted to the various institutions in popularizing and disseminating the Tunisian culture inside and outside the country.

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