The Lithuanian Culture Institute has been founded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania. Its function is to promote Lithuanian culture abroad and to present Lithuania to the world through culture. Among other things the Lithuanian Culture Institute organizes and coordinates Lithuanian cultural programmes abroad, implements cooperative bilateral and multilateral exchanges as well as cultural programmes in Lithuania and abroad, works closely with and implements projects of the cultural attaches of the Republic of Lithuania in foreign countries. The mission of the Lithuanian Cultural Institute is to effectively and constructively represent Lithuanian professional art abroad.