Six sectors belong to the General Secretariat of the National Council for Culture, Arts and Literature, and under each sector there are specialized departments, and these sectors and their management are as follows: -

• 1. Culture Sector

  He bears many burdens such as supporting and caring for intellectual and cultural creativity. He also works to spread the general culture through the various publications of the Council and bears the responsibility of preserving and documenting the folklore, preserving and documenting the Arab heritage, and the work of this sector is supported by a group of committees such as the committee to support creative publications and authorize literary and artistic devotion, The Committee for Encouragement of Local Books, the Committee for Cultural Agreements, the State Encouragement Award Committee, and the editorial boards of the Council's five publications, and this sector works to carry out its tasks through the following departments: Culture Department, Publishing and Distribution Department, Book Fairs Department , Public Libraries Department , and Al-Arabi Magazine Management .

• 2. Arts sector

  It is the responsibility of this sector to undertake the tasks of supporting and revitalizing and documenting theatrical work, taking care of the quality of theatrical texts, supervising private theaters, child theater affairs, and theatrical establishments and their management and maintenance, and also supervising theatrical festivals and similar events inside Kuwait, as well as theatrical festivals that represent Kuwait abroad. Supervising the organization of plastic arts exhibitions and reviving the musical arts, and it works to implement its tasks through the following departments: Fine Arts Department, Music and Folklore Department, Theater Department.

• 3. Financial and Administrative Affairs Sector:

  It is the agency responsible for implementing the Civil Service Law, issuing administrative decisions regulating work, preparing the council’s budget and following up its implementation according to the financial controls in force, in coordination with the Audit Bureau.

• 4. Antiquities and museums sector

  This sector has a prominent role in promoting and consolidating the national spirit and preserving its identity by linking the citizen with the components and features of this history, and its work includes museums, their management and care, and the excavation of antiquities in the lands and islands of the State of Kuwait.

• 5. Kuwait National Library Sector

  If the library of the Arab Charitable Society, which was established in 1913, is seen as the first public library in Kuwait, then the opening of the "Al-Ahlia" library in 1923 ushered in a new era of the relationship between Kuwaiti people, writers and knowledge that the "central library of the state", which was inaugurated in the year 1986, but it was truly the true nucleus of the National Library of Kuwait, which is today the first intellectual, scientific, cultural and artistic treasury of the State of Kuwait. On the twenty-ninth of March 1994, the Amiri Decree was issued to establish the National Library of Kuwait. The issuance of the decree came to fulfill the dream that had been haunting Kuwaiti intellectuals for many years. The decree in its first article has the right to have the library affiliated with the National Council for Culture, Arts and Literature. The second article of the decree summarized the library’s goal in (((..
  The third article of the decree specified the fields of work of the library in order to achieve its objectives as follows:

  1. Collecting, organizing, documenting and preserving heritage and national intellectual production in its various forms and types.
  2. Forming and developing selected international foreign groups in various topics of interest to the State of Kuwait, the Gulf region, and the Arab and Islamic countries.
  3. Sponsoring, coordinating and supporting Cooperation activities between libraries and information centers in the State of Kuwait.
  4. Sponsoring, coordinating and supporting Cooperation activities between libraries and information centers in the State of Kuwait.
  5. Performing the role of a depository library for all national works.
  6. Performing the role of the National Bibliographic Center, given that the most important tasks of the National Library and its main functions lie in
  7. Supervising the system for depositing artistic works and working to protect copyrights.
  8. Preparing the unified national index.
  9. Developing and establishing an automated information system for library services at the state level.
  10. Upgrading the performance of national elements working in the library sector.
  11. Cooperation and coordination with research and specialized libraries in Kuwait and abroad.
  12. Cooperation and coordination with research and specialized libraries in Kuwait and abroad.

  The National Library plays a prominent and major role in the arena of thought, culture and literature in Kuwait, through the various services it provides to the reader and researcher, starting with books, references, series and periodicals. Kuwaiti, Arab and international, through the available computer programs to access any required information, in addition to supervising the system of filing artistic works, working to protect intellectual property rights, and ending with the establishment of a national bibliography center. The National Library of Kuwait provides books by purchasing, exchanging and gifting Arab and foreign publications, publications, references and periodicals, and it is a destination for researchers, scholars, specialists and readers in all fields of knowledge.

• 6. Islamic Antiquities Sector

  The Islamic House of Antiquities was inaugurated with the opening of the Kuwait National Museum on February 23, 1983, based on a contract concluded between the Ministry of Information and the owner of the Al-Sabah Group in 1983. With the transfer of the Kuwait National Museum from the Ministry of Information to the National Council for Culture, Arts and Literature, a new agreement was concluded between the owner of the Al-Sabah Archaeological Collection and the President of the National Council for Culture and Literature on 7/17/2000, and based on this agreement, Administrative Decision 348/2001 was issued on 7/18/2001. With the formation of the organizational structure of the house (the Islamic Antiquities Sector) affiliated to the Secretary General of the National Council for Culture, Arts and Literature. The House of Islamic Antiquities, which is currently operating under the umbrella of the Council and affiliated to the Islamic Antiquities Sector, has become a special case as a Kuwaiti cultural artistic ambassador, carrying to the world through the mobile house exhibitions Islamic treasures Emphasizes the greatness, sophistication and humanity of Islamic civilization.The Al-Sabah group, which includes rare Islamic artifacts that belong to Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, and Sheikha Hessa Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah, in the permanent travel of her exhibitions throughout the length and breadth of the world, represents a bright face of cultural work in the State of Kuwait, especially that the treasures and anecdotes of antiques The Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyya, which covers more than one era of Islamic history, has carved a remarkable place and presence for itself in international museums, and has come to be referred to by Lebanon as one of the most important collections of antiques in the world. The "Al-Dar" collection exceeded 30,000 masterpieces, covering the historical period from the eighth to the eighteenth century AD and geographically covering an area that extends from Mughal-Islamic India to Arab and Islamic Andalusia. It also covers various Islamic artistic creations. This sector works to carry out its tasks through departments. The following (Department of exhibitions and educational programs - Department of cultural and scientific resources - Department of archaeological collections - Department of technical information programs and relations)
  The activities of the house are divided into two parts:

1. An internal activity centered around the organization of an integrated cultural season for the house, starting from the month of May of the year, and the activity includes a variety of topics between archaeological, historical, literary, Arab and international music, and the cultural season of the house began more than fifteen years ago.
2. External activity, including international traveling exhibitions.