There are two Cultural Commissions responsible for legislation in the cultural field, one in each house of the Parliament of the Republic of Poland (the lower house – Sejm and the upper house – Senat). However, the Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego (Ministry of Culture and National Heritage) remains the main body shaping the cultural policy at national level. The Ministry is divided into different departments, including the Departament Dziedzictwa Kulturowego (Department of Cultural Heritage). The Ministry is in charge of supporting specific public cultural institutions that are active a given field of culture (e.g. national museums, National Heritage Board of Poland whose mission is to create the basis for sustainable protection of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. the International Cultural Centre that among other topics deals with the heritage of Central Europe), a right also granted to other ministries (e.g. the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Ministry of National Defence). For example, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs established the Adam Mickiewicz Institute whose field of action is the promotion of Polish culture abroad. 

The protection of national heritage is also ensured by the Council for Museums and Sites of National Remembrance. It is a consultative and advisory body to the Ministry, working on cultural heritage protection in matters of management, financing and cultural policy in the field of museology and matters related to places of national memory, including extermination monuments.