The Kolkata Museum of Modern Art (KMOMA) is a not-for-profit public charitable trust created by the Government of West Bengal. The principal objective of the Trust as laid down in the Trust Deed is to “set up a state-of-the-art Museum of international standard comparable and capable of being compared to the best museums of the world”.

Further, the museum and its allied infrastructure shall provide for, inter alia, an art library, art restoration, facilities for open air exhibitions and to create a forum for the promotion of art and culture, dissemination of knowledge relating to art and culture, and to carry out philanthropic activities including holding and assisting charitable exhibitions.