Mykolas Žilinskas Art Gallery
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, it became apparent that a new bigger gallery building was necessary, which was opened on 30 June 1989. The new gallery was opened in Independence Square (architects Eugenijus Miliūnas, Kęstutis Kisielius, Saulius Juškys).
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 sculpture 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. The Gallery has an exhibition "Museum for the Blind" for visually impaired visitors.
Image gallery
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Statue of a Man
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Interior of the gallery
References
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- ^ „Objekto Nr. 45138 išsamus aprašymas“. Lietuvos Respublikos kultūros vertybių registras.
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