| Ministry of Culture | |
| Native Name: | Portuguese: Ministério da Cultura |
| Agency Type: | Ministry |
| Jurisdiction: | Federal government of Brazil |
| Headquarters: | Esplanada dos Ministérios, Bloco B Brasília, Federal District |
| Budget: | $6.3 b BRL (2023)[1] |
| Chief1 Name: | Margareth Menezes |
| Chief1 Position: | Minister |
| Chief2 Name: | Márcio Tavares |
| Chief2 Position: | Executive-Secretary |
| Chief3 Name: | Marcos Alves de Souza |
| Chief3 Position: | Secretary of Copyright and Intellectual Property |
| Chief4 Name: | Henilton Parente |
| Chief4 Position: | Secretary of Creative Economy and Cultural Promotion |
| Chief5 Name: | Fabiano Piúba |
| Chief5 Position: | Secretary of Graduation, Book and Reading |
| Chief6 Name: | Joelma Gonzaga |
| Chief6 Position: | Secretary of Audiovisual |
| Chief7 Name: | Roberta Martins |
| Chief7 Position: | Secretary of Culture Committees |
| Chief8 Name: | Márcia Rollemberg |
| Chief8 Position: | Secretary of Citizenship and Cultural Diversity |
The Ministry of Culture of Brazil (Portuguese: Ministério da Cultura, MinC) is a cabinet-level federal ministry created in 1985, in the first month of president's José Sarney government, dissolved by Jair Bolsonaro in 2019 and reinstated by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2023.
In April 1990, it was dissolved by president Fernando Collor de Mello and transformed into a Culture Secretary, directly linked to the presidency. This situation was reverted two years later, but, in the meantime, in 1991, the law called popularly Lei Rouanet was created by the secretary of Culture, Sérgio Paulo Rouanet. It is a law that allows companies and individuals to sponsor cultural products, up to respectively 4% and 6% of their income tax. It is a law of incentive to the culture, the most important instrument of the ministry, frequently contested.
In 1999, president Fernando Henrique Cardoso expanded the scope of the law, with more financial resources and a reorganization of its structure. Again, in 2003, president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva restructured the ministry.
The Ministry of Culture was dissolved again on 12 May 2016 by the acting president of Brazil, Michel Temer. Its functions were merged into a new Ministry of Education and Culture. The dissolution of the ministry immediately sparked protests in numerous Brazilian cities, and included the occupation of the Gustavo Capanema Palace in Rio de Janeiro, and National Foundation of the Arts (FUNARTE) offices in Belo Horizonte, Brasília and São Paulo. Artists such as the singer Otto and Arnaldo Antunes participated in the protests. The Ministry of Culture was reinstated by the Temer government on 23 May 2016, dissolved by Jair Bolsonaro in his first day of presidency and reinstated by the Lula administration in 2023.