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The Swedish National Heritage Board is Sweden’s central administrative agency for cultural heritage. As a national cultural heritage authority, the Swedish National Heritage Board is thus the body that puts the government's cultural heritage policy aspirations into practice, which is why it is relevant to examine the political and ideological currents that influence the authority's activities and by extension the entire cultural heritage administration. Through a mixed method study of governing documents, and an interview with a former Swedish National Heritage Board employee, this essay aims to increase knowledge of and understand the underlying processes and ideological driving forces that form the basis of how the Swedish National Heritage Board operations and tasks practiced during the last thirty years. The result gives an insight into a future oriented politicized authority whose main task seems to be to manage modern cultural heritage, motivated by political interests linked to equality, integration, and economic growth.