The “BUILDING A CULTURE PARK” light installation is a good example of a non-commercial neon sign. Unlike many others that advertised shops or eateries, this one promoted involvement in a social action. The park in question is today’s Silesian Park – one of the largest and most spectacular investments of the 1950s in our region. A devastated wasteland area on the border of Katowice, Chorzów and Siemianowice Śląskie was reclaimed to form a park of over 600 hectares. The Provincial Park of Culture and Leisure was twice the size of New York’s Central Park. In 1967, the administrative boundaries between Katowice and Chorzów were changed, so that the entire Park became part of Chorzów. In return, the land on which the Tysiąclecia housing estate was built was incorporated into Katowice.

The neon sign itself, apart from the lettering, included the outline of two working characters. This was not the only neon sign of its kind in the Market Square area – an installation encouraging support for the Social Fund for the Reconstruction of the Capital was placed on one of the neighbouring buildings.