The term encompasses a range of components that contribute to the development, preservation and dissemination of cultural assets. It can include organisations, activities and spaces. These include exhibition and performance spaces, libraries, archives, educational institutions and digital platforms, as well as funding programmes, festivals and heritage sites. Cultural infrastructure tells stories of globalisation, and we can use cultural infrastructure to reconstruct narratives of globalisation. From a global perspective, cultural infrastructure is characterised above all by major disparities. This applies not only to investment in physical structures, but also to the institutional consensus on the necessity of such infrastructures.