The world has moved the emphasis from having knowledge onto getting knowledge, from „knowing” onto „searching”. Traditional museum units are icons of “knowledge”: archives of dates, biographies, achievements, currents, styles, trends which cause frustration in a layman. Department of Education of the Museum of Art in Lodz works differently. Just like Google.com, it provides tools thanks to which everyone can find their own answers.
All activities of the Department of Education have the value of originality. Words are not taken from dictionaries of borrowings, encyclopaedias or monographs but speak of experience of a particular man who wants to share it. Education at the Museum of Art in Lodz does not form annals of name, titles and dates referring to art history aimed at critics and curators. Neither is it a creation of works by future artists to enter competitions and exhibitions.
What is education at the Museum of Art in Lodz? It is the encouragement to experience the 20th and 21st century art – just this and that much.
Nobody clarifies the only one sense of art. but translate its hermetic discourse into language comprehensible for every person, in a way that is subject to a topic and not to the methodologies of academic disciplines. Each interpretation increases the “amount” of knowledge. It is not worth excluding any opinion. Everyone is right in a way.
Department of Education overthrows the dictates of canon and appreciates individual experience every day afresh. Much can be gained from the multitude of interpretations: a better, multilateral, tolerant, empathetic way of experiencing the world, not only art.

Department of Education team at the Museum of Art In Lodz