 Since 1991, the gallery has been an integral part of the Ivan Meštrović Foundation with its headquarters in Zagreb, and which now administers all four donated properties.The gallery's mission, as defined in the first Statute (6 May 1958) are the ""protection, collection, expert and scholarly treatment and presentation of the museum holdings and popularization of Ivan Meštrović's works and name"".The initial gallery holdings contained 70 sculptures, specifically listed by the artist and selected to be placed in the museum of his works in Split and in the nearby Kaštelet-Crikvine complex.