The Boekman Foundation collects and disseminates knowledge and information about the arts and culture in both policy and practice. It stimulates research and the development of opinion on the production, distribution and take-up of the arts and on national and international policy on the arts and culture. The Boekman Foundation has a library providing current information and documentation, provides literature-research, organizes symposia, expert meetings and (international) conferences like the Johannes Vermeerprize, publishes books and the Boekman, the foundation's journal on arts, culture and related policy; proposes the Dissertation Prize for the most valuable Doctoral theses on the subject of arts, culture and related policy, every 3 years, is the initiator of ConnectCP and moderator/content creator for the website www.cultuurbeleid.nl with the latest news on culture, politics and conferences in the field of arts and culture.
