M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art is one of the largest and oldest art museums in Lithuania. It has already reached one hundred years of its history and from a small temporary Čiurlionis Gallery has grown into a huge museum complex, which today has as many as 10 different museums. The official date of M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum’s foundation is considered to be the 14th December, 1921. The main impetus to this was the need to collect and save M. K. Čiurlionis’ creative inheritance. In 1924, artist Paulius Galaunė, the only one in Lithuania having a museum education after his studies in Paris Louvre School (Ecole du Louvre), took the helm of the M. K. Čiurlionis Gallery. It was opened on December 13, 1925, and had almost 4.5 thousand exhibits.