Mercantile societies that carry out the commercialization and representation of artistic talent, people or cultural products in general, play a role of vital importance:

• Artistic and Literary Promotions, ARTEX S A.
• Cultural Representations, REC. S. A.
• PROMIUSIC S.A.
• Engineering Projects and Services Company. (ATRIO)

Group of institutions, offices and centres that are not economically independent, but play a fundamental role in information, communication, professional development, attention and representation of personalities, Investments, Treasury and other activities through the following institutions:

• Centre for Development and Cultural Communication
• Center of Studies "Antonio Maceo y Grajales"
• Ibero-American Center of the Decima and Improvised Verse
• Onelio Jorge Cardoso" Literary Training Center
• Development Fund for Education and Culture
• Treasury Center
• Central Archive of the Ministry of Culture
• EXPOCUBA Group
• Cubanacan Project Coordination Office
• Coordinating Centre for International Collaboration on Cuban Culture

Group of companies and entities that carry out activities of commercialization of cultural goods and services, maintenance services of the institutions' facilities, protection of the movable goods and securities that are stored in the institutions, investments and consultancy that they are:

• Music Recording and Publishing Company - EGREM
• Company Cuban Fund for Cultural Heritage
• Abdala Productions S.A.
• Genesis Art Gallery
• Services and Works Execution Company
• Security Company for Cultural Institutions
• Cultural Economics Consultancy
• MINCULT Priority Works Investment Center

Institutions with global functions:

• National Library "José Martí"
• House of the Americas
• National Author Right Center
• CUBARTE

As a basic support to the management and development of culture, there is an institution dedicated to the development of the sector's own research and its organic link with the rest of the social sciences:

• Center for Research and Development of Cuban Culture "Juan Marinello.

It articulates, in a systemic way, with the diverse branch institutions of artistic production and creation, the activity of art education, fundamentally directed to the formation of the qualified technical force, to approach the different spheres of the cultural work. The teaching institutions are:

• University of the Arts
• National Center of Art Schools
• National School of Art
• Center of Improvement for Culture

For the fulfillment of specific cultural objectives there are a set of Foundations and Societies, which are the following:

• Alejo Carpentier Foundation.
• Foundation of Nature and Man.
• Foundation of the New Latin American Cinema.
• Ludwig Foundation of Cuba.
• Caguayo Foundation.
• “Fernando Ortiz” Foundation.

Existe un conjunto de instituciones que ejecutan la política trazada por el Ministerio de Cultura, pero, se diferencian de las anteriores, en que rebasan el alcance de una manifestación artística en particular, ejerciendo funciones globales.