Mykolas Žilinskas Art Gallery

Mykolas Žilinskas Art Gallery
Mykolo Žilinsko dailės galerija
	The Mykolas Žilinskas Art Gallery building, in Independence square, Kaunas, Lithuania
Established	1963; 61 years ago
Location	Kaunas, Lithuania
Coordinates	54°53′46.79″N 23°55′14.49″E / 54.8963306°N 23.9206917°E
Type	Art Museum
Owner	M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum
Website	Official website

The Mykolas Žilinskas Art Gallery (Lithuanian: Mykolo Žilinsko dailės galerija) is an art museum based in Kaunas, Lithuania, branching off from the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum.^[1]^[2] The majority of exhibited works were donated by Lithuanian collector Mykolas Žilinskas.^[3] In 1991, the sculpture "Man", created by Petras Mazūras in 1986, was erected next to the entrance.^[4] In 2020, the post-modernist building of the gallery was included in the Registry of Cultural Property.^[5]

The gallery houses a collection of 1,683 works of art donated by Mykolas Žilinskas to the city of Kaunas between 1974 and 1988. In 1978, a new picture gallery was built on K. Donelaitis Street to house the collection. As Žilinskas continued to donate new works, a new bigger gallery building was deemed necessary, which subsequently opened on 30 June 1989. The new gallery was opened in Independence Square (architects Eugenijus Miliūnas, Kęstutis Kisielius, Saulius Juškys).^{[citation needed]}

The Mykolas Žilinskas Art Gallery exhibits Ancient Egyptian art, 17th-20th century European applied-decorative art, 17th-18th century Italian paintings, 19th - 20th-century Western European paintings, and early 20th-century paintings and sculptures by Baltic artists. Three rooms of the gallery are reserved for temporary exhibitions of the works of Lithuanian and foreign artists. The gallery has a Contemporary Art Information Centre, a lecture theatre, the "Menapilis" cinema and a children's aesthetic education studio, and an exhibition "Museum for the Blind" for visually impaired visitors.^[6]