The exhibition “Life as Song. From the Portfolio of Professor Adolf Dygacz” was organized by the Museum “Upper Silesian Ethnographic Park in Chorzów” in 2020. The curators of the exhibition and the authors of the accompanying it catalog are Krzysztof Bulla and Agata Krajewska. The composition of the exhibition together with the prepared catalog form a coherent in the terms of its content, factual and logically planned whole. The exhibition is devoted to archival materials preserved in the folklore portfolio of Professor Adolf Dygacz, an outstanding expert in the traditional musical culture of Upper Silesia and the Dąbrowa Basin. In a separate part, the exhibition presents the scientist, his life, professional, pedagogical and social activity, especially the extensive area of his interests and research results collected in many studies and scientific works, songbook editions and popular science study sketches. The main subject of the exhibition is an extensive collection of folk songs, documented by Adolf Dygacz during many years of his field work and research. The archival resource of source materials was arranged into clear thematic blocks – information boards, correctly and precisely prepared, with examples of texts and song melodies, and boards of antique folk and glass instruments. The extensive exhibition has been complemented with illustrative music and audiovisual recordings. Therefore, the participants of the exhibition have the opportunity to choose only elements of their interest, which are placed in separate thematic boards. The organizational, exhibition and scientific project undertaken has the rank of a particularly important document, as it is a pioneering, revealing and momentous event that clearly and permanently fits into the landscape of contemporary culture of Upper Silesia and the Dąbrowa Basin.