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The purpose of the study is to identify the main stages in the formation and development of cultural policy in Europe as one of the areas of public policy. Research methodology. To solve this problem, we used the systemic method, the method of typology and comparison. The basic scientific principles were chosen the principle of historicism and objectivity. Scientific novelty lies in the first interdisciplinary comprehensive study of changes in the social and cultural life of society, the development of socio-political thought, education, the formation and development of a secular state, which made it possible to determine the main stages of the history of cultural policy in Europe. Conclusions. The cultural policy as a separate sphere of social development originated in the middle ages and has evolved through seven stages. In different periods, both the leading actors and the cultural spheres that fell under their influence changed. In the early stages the Church heavily influenced to the sphere of popular culture. State care to education and culture is increasing with the consolidation of absolutism and the formation of nation-States. Cultural institutions are transformed into promoters of national ideas and receive state support. The development of capitalism is intensifying the cultural needs of the bourgeoisie. The public-state model of cultural policy formed. The history of the twentieth century provides examples of the use of culture for political purposes. During this period the term «cultural policy» began to be used. In the postwar period the strategy for the development of cultural policy changed from the «culture for all» to concepts of multiculturalism and animation conception. The development processes of post-industrial society with the major attention to the scope of services and consumption has set cultural policy a task to promotion of cultural industries, encourage private investment and further decentralization of management.