Direction régionale des affaires culturelles

[citation needed] His mission led to the creation of five experimental DRACs from 1969, in Île-de-France, Rhône-Alpes, Alsace, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and Corsica.

Their missions cover all the sectors of activity of the ministry: Literature, music, plastic arts, dance, theater, cinema and audiovisual, scientific and technical culture, museums, archives and heritage.

They ensure the communication and the implementation of all the interventions of the ministry according to the objectives common to all the sectors and indicated as priorities by the minister, namely: In order to carry out these actions, each department has a regional headquarters and territorial units.

The regional director of cultural affairs is surrounded by a team with a wide range of scientific, technical, artistic and administrative skills.

Each department includes, among others, the following services: Regional Conservation of Historic Monuments (CRMH): in charge of the legal protection of historic monuments; Departmental units of architecture and heritage (UDAP) (architects of the buildings of France): services in charge in each department of the scientific and technical control on the ground of the Historic buildings, the surroundings of the historic buildings, the sites and the promotion of the architecture and the heritage; Service régional de l'archéologie (SRA) : in charge of the control of archaeological sites and preventive excavations; Pôle Création-Diffusion: contributing to the encouragement of artistic creation (theater, music, dance, plastic arts) and the economy of cultural industries (cinema-audiovisual, books and reading) and gathering the advisors responsible for these sectors.