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In 1962, Przypkowski donated the sundial collection to the People's Republic of Poland, thus giving rise to the State Przypkowski Museum in Jędrzejów. It may very well have been a preëmptive move to avoid forced nationalization, allowing 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 successfully make do in the grim reality of post-war Communist Poland.
His head was always full of fantastic ideas, which he persistently inundated the Communist authorities with. Many of them these schemes were way too far-fetched to have any chance of ever materializing, but Przypkowski never lost heart and just kept coming up with new ones. His own design for a new national coat of arms fell through.<ref>{{Cyt
| tytuł = Przekrój
| nazwisko r = Przypkowski
