Projects is the most common work model within the cultural area, but what is a cultural project? The definition of cultural projects is ambiguous. There are also no compiled information about what it means for culture to be pursued in project form. Scientific research about traditional project management and success criterias are wide-ranging. So is the scientific research about cultural studies and cultural policy. Which perspectives exists concerning successful cultural projects? This study is constructed from qualitative interviews with cultural producers and cultural perpetrators having been funded by Region Wermland. The empirical material is analyzed using a project model for success criterias. The result of the study indicates through the model similarities and differences, and presents an alternative model compatible with cultural projects. In the suggested model there appears to be three main sections: project management success, product success and market success. Project management success contains the framework for time and cost, derived from the classic iron triangle. However the quality goal aspect has been moved to the section product success. A common denominator in the researched projects is the concept popular adult education in relation to a successful outcome. The study presents a model that increases the understanding of the complexity of cultural projects.