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This article presents the social status of cultural education and the role it can play in inclusive education for adults with disabilities. The author discusses cultural education as placed in a vulnerable position ‘in between’ the pedagogy of accommodation and the pedagogy of dissent. This ‘trouble spot’ is a result of the structural dependence of cultural educators and cultural institutions on the practices and effects of the general education system where the spiral of exclusion tends to escalate, driven by the logic of ascription and mechanisms of veiled meritocracy. The latter are analysed in detail also in reference to the applicable regulations and standards of inclusive education in Poland. Based on the case study of the ‘Sztuka w ciemno’ (‘Art in Blind’) project, implemented in 2020 at the Zamek Cultural Centre in Poznań, the article reveals insufficiencies of innovative thinking in accessibility projects in the face of systemic errors, exclusions, and ‘pretend’ inclusive actions in primary and secondary education.