The main building of the National Gallery of Art (NGA) was designed in 1968, built in 1980 by architects Gediminas Baravykas and Vytautas Vielius.
NGA is a subdivision of the Lithuanian Art Museum (LAM).
NGA is composed of 10 collection exposition halls, a Grand Exhibition Hall, Auditorium, Information Centre, Museum Education Centre, storages, administration premises, bookshop and café.
The LAM 20th-21st Century Lithuanian art collection includes over 46 000 exhibits.
Modern and contemporary Lithuanian painting, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, installations and video art are presented in the collection exposition covering:
• multinational art milieu of Vilnius in the beginning of the 20th Century, the birth of the Lithuanian art movement;
• modern art in Lithuania and Vilnius region in the first half of the 20th Century;
• works of Lithuanian artists affected by World War II and Soviet occupation in mid 20th Century; manifestations of socialist realism;
• Lithuanian art and photography in the second half of the 20th Century continuing the modernist tradition; the art of Lithuanian artists in exile;
• contemporary Lithuanian art at the end of the 20th-21st Centuries.
Virtual tour at the National Gallery of Art
