A peasant's interpretation of the Bible combined with a folk understanding of the world yields extremely creative imagery. In the exhibition, you will learn why it rains when a spider is killed, why a swallow has red feathers on its head and why a stork eats frogs. A reflection of these beliefs, as well as religious practices, is the colourful but simple in form non-professional, folk and art-brut art.

Art created by the excluded, the alienated and the poor should be seen as the result of human experience struggling with everyday life. The human fate encapsulated in a piece of wood or painted on a sheet of glass ceases to be something local, provincial. "Produced" for one's own use, the work suddenly reveals its timeless character - it attracts the attention of the whole world and constitutes the universalism of this art.

The origins of the Museum's collection of folk and non-professional art go back to the 1950s and 1960s, when Professor Ksawery Piwocki was its director. Works of art, which in the opinion of other museum professionals did not meet aesthetic criteria, evoked admiration and appreciation in Professor Piwocki - an outstanding art historian. By creating the first and for a long time the largest collection of the art brut trend and folk art in Poland, he initiated the fashion for collecting non-professional art.