The purpose of the article is to analyze the legal provisions governing the functioning of local government cultural institutions on the example of the Jacek Malczewski Museum in Radom. The Jacek Malczewski Museum as a local government institution of culture fulfills public tasks. It is a non-profit organizational unit whose aim is to collect and permanently protect tangible and intangible goods of natural and cultural heritage of humanity, to inform about the values and contents of the gathered collections, to popularize the basic values of Polish and world history, science and culture, to shape cognitive and aesthetic sensitivity and to enable the use of the gathered collections. Nevertheless, it may carry out additional activities, the proceeds from which will be used for the implementation of statutory task.