Milda Ivanauskienė

Milda Ivanauskienė is the director at the MO Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania. Milda has a background in International and European Law (MA and L.LM) and has graduated from the Executive MBA program with an extensive focus on management and leadership.

After a decade of working in the legal field (including the Lithuanian representation to the European Court of Human Rights), Milda shifted her career towards building a modern and contemporary art museum from scratch.

Having started out as the Project Manager of the MO Museum – a museum without walls back then – in 2014, she became the Managing Director in 2015 and has been leading a steadily growing team of the most popular private museum in Lithuania ever since.

Milda Ivanauskienė will be speaking at the Museums & Schools Summit 2026:

From an Art Museum to a National School Programme in the Making

What does it take for an art museum to become a long-term partner in formal education? MO Museum’s experience reflects a journey from early skepticism about museum-school collaboration to developing projects aimed at becoming a stable part of Lithuania’s national education landscape. Long-term partnerships, sustained work with teacher communities, and collaboration within public programmes reveal how trust, consistency, and demonstrated impact allow experimental projects to grow into systemic change. The case highlights how cultural education can scale across disciplines and schools nationwide, working towards becoming part of everyday classroom practice.