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[[File:Przypkowscy.jpg|thumb|upright=.9|Tadeusz Przypkowski (1905–1977), seated below a portrait of his father, Feliks Przypkowski (1872–1951), flanked by his son, Piotr Maciej Przypkowski (b. 1947), on the right , and his grandson, Jan Aleksander Przypkowski (b. 1973), the current director of the Przypowski Family Museum, on the left]]
In 1962, Przypkowski donated the sundial collection to the People's Republic of Poland, thus creating the State Przypkowski Family Museum in Jędrzejów. It may very well have been a preëmptive move to avoid forced nationalization. It allowed him to gain access to public funding, while keeping actual control over the collection in the hands of House Przypkowski, where the post of the museum director is passed from father to son (currently in the third generation). It's just one of many examples proving that, his old Polish charm notwithstanding, Tadeusz Przypkowski was resourceful enough to be capable of making do in the bleak reality of post-war Communist Poland.
