This essay is about Swedish government cultural policy. The premise is that cultural policy is a form of welfare policy. The welfare state has changed and this affects the conditions for the cultural policy. Welfare is funded and organized in different parts of society, in three spheres that can be said to represent society as a whole. These spheres are the public sphere, the market and the civil society. The aim is to analyze how the national cultural policy appeared in the 1970s, compared to how it appears today. The theoretical approach is that society is composed of three spheres, their development is described in the paper with Karl Polanyi's The great transformation. The welfare state and the change of it is described by two of Jacobs Torfings writings and by Bob Jessops two ideal types of welfare states, The Keynesian Welfare National State and The Schumpeterian Workfare Postnational Regime. The method is to use the three spheres of society as an ideal type and make an analysis of ideas in two cultural policy bills. The result of the analysis is that in the bill from 1974 the goal became a cultural policy that contributes to a more equal society and the market's influence on culture is considered problematic. In 2009 the market is considered rather as something contributing to growth and development in society. This development indicates a change of the welfare state.