In 1994, Vilnius Picture Gallery opened its door in the Chodkevicius Mansion, offering viewers its first permanent exhibition of Lithuanian art from XVI-XIX centuries.

The Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) is the largest venue for contemporary art in the Baltic States, with an exhibition space of 2400 sq.m. CAC is a non-collection based institution committed to developing a broad range of international and Lithuanian exhibition projects as well as presenting a wide range of public programmes, including lectures, seminars, performances, film and video screenings and live new music events. The CAC is well known internationally as the home of the Baltic Triennial of International Art – one of the major contemporary festival exhibitions in Northern Europe.

National Museum of Lithuania is the largest depository of Lithuanian historical heritage, where museum valuables reflecting the cultural history of the country are collected, preserved, studied and popularised on a systematic basis. At the same time it is the oldest museum of Lithuania with its roots in the Vilnius Museum of Antiquities, established in 1855 on the initiative of cultural historian Count Eustache Tyszkiewicz.

For the whole Lithuanian nation this building is a symbol of the 50-year-long Soviet occupation. Set up in the former KGB headquarters, the museum is the only one of its kind in the former Soviet republics. It was established in the building where the plans for deportation and the arrests of peaceful inhabitants, the persecution of opponents and the suppression of the resistance were devised and carried out by Soviet institutions between 1940 and 1991.