The City spends about 30 million EUR every year on culture. There are many museums, theatres and other cultural institutions in Brno, the city is also a vibrant university city with about ninety thousand students, a number of festivals, exhibitions, and other cultural events.
Since the 1990s Brno is experiencing a great cultural "rebirth", facades of historical monuments are being repaired and various exhibitions, shows, etc. are being established or extended. However the city still might have a bad reputation of "a dirty industrial town with nothing worthy of seeing". In 2007 a summit of 15 presidents of the EU Member States was held in Brno, in 1996 British Queen Elizabeth II visited the city, then in 2010, her eldest son, Prince Charles, in 2009 Pope Benedict XVI, and others.
Despite its urban character Brno still preserves traditional Moravian folklore, including folk festivals with tradition Moravian national costumes (cz: kroje), Moravian wines, folk music and dances, and other things. Unlike smaller municipalities, in Brno the traditional folk festivals are held locally by certain city districts, among the city district where annually the traditional Moravian festivals takes place are Zidenice, Lísen, or Ivanovice
