Only 4 percent of the 2,572 people from the museum and library sector who responded to the survey think that their workplaces have sufficient resources for emergency preparedness work.
Only two out of ten library employees respond that they have a contingency plan for war.
In the 2026 budget, the government allocates SEK 59 million for measures to increase cultural preparedness, but this is not enough, according to DIK's union chairwoman Anna Troberg. This corresponds to 0.03 percent of a total of SEK 225 billion for defense and society's crisis preparedness next year, according to the union's calculations.
"Making culture defenseless when the world is burning around us is foolish. Investments in culture are never wasted," says Anna Troberg in a press release.
Minister of Culture Parisa Liljestrand (M) dismisses DIK's comparison as "pure nonsense".
"Museums and libraries, unlike the Armed Forces, do not need to buy new fighter jets, artillery systems and submarines," she writes in a text message to TT.
