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The article describes the most important issues related to the appointment of a director of a cultural institution, and to concluding an agreement on managing a cultural institution that stem from the recent amendments to the act on organising and conducting cultural activities. In January 2012, the amendments introduced a division into artistic institutions and other non-artistic institutions of culture. The rules for appointing the heads of these entities have been diversified, too. The article also presents, among others, an analysis of transitional regulations, i.e. the legal status of directors of cultural institutions appointed before the act came into force. The author also discusses an opportunity to employ heads of such institutions on the basis of a civil-law agreement on managing an institution of culture, to which, however, the public procurement law will be now applied.