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Godziny otwarcia:
Thursday11:00-17:00
Monday Closed
Tuesday 11:00-19:00
Wednesday 11:00-19:00
Thursday 11:00-17:00
Friday 11:00-19:00
Saturday 12:00-18:00
Sunday 12:00-18:00
Godziny otwarcia:
Thursday11:00-17:00
Monday Closed
Tuesday 11:00-19:00
Wednesday 11:00-19:00
Thursday 11:00-17:00
Friday 11:00-19:00
Saturday 12:00-18:00
Sunday 12:00-18:00
Godziny otwarcia:
Thursday 11:00-17:00
Monday Closed
Tuesday 11:00-19:00
Wednesday 11:00-19:00
Thursday 11:00-17:00
Friday 11:00-19:00
Saturday 12:00-18:00
Sunday 12:00-18:00
Godziny otwarcia:
Thursday 11:00-17:00
Monday Closed
Tuesday 11:00-19:00
Wednesday 11:00-19:00
Thursday 11:00-17:00
Friday 11:00-19:00
Saturday 12:00-18:00
Sunday 12:00-18:00
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Permanent exhibition
13.10.2016 - 13.10.2026

Biblia Pauperum

Surprising visions of non-professional artists

The peasants’ interpretation of the Bible and their unique perspective of the world gives very creative results. Visitors to the exhibitions will learn why it rains when you kill a spider, why swallows have red feathers on their heads, or why the stork eats frogs. Those beliefs and also religious practices reflect in a rich yet simple non-professional, folk, and art-brut genres of art.

The artworks created by the excluded, the alienated and the poor should be perceived as a result of human experiences and effects of overcoming daily challenges. Human fate encapsulated in a piece of wood, marked on paper or painted on a glass pane loses its locality, its provincial quality. A piece of work an author “produced” for themselves unexpectedly reveals its timeless qualities, drawing the attention of people from all over the world. This is why this art is universal.

The Warsaw collection of non-professional and folk art dates back to the 1950s and 1960s, the times when Professor Ksawery Piwocki was the museum’s director. Pieces other experts rejected due to their low aesthetic value, enraptured and delighted Piwocki, a remarkable historian of art. By creating the very first and for a long time the largest collection of art brut and folk art in Poland, he started the fashion of collecting non-professional art.

Virtual exhibition – link

Producer

The purchase was subsidized by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage’s “Museum Collections” programme and funds from The Office of the Marshal of the Mazowieckie Voivodeship.

Honorary patronage

10.12 - 31.12.2022
Wystawa

Here and There

15.03 - 26.06.2022
Wystawa

New Inuit Art