The gallery was founded in 1609 as the evangelic cemetery. The gallery is the unique collection of protestant sacral art of 17th and 18th century in Poland.
It was founded in 1609 as the evangelic cemetery. It is rectangular in shape and refers to the Italian style cemeteries (so called Camp Santo – Holy Fields). One can admire the collection of almost 200 epitaphs of 17th and 18th centuries . Among them the grave stones and tombs of Waleriusz Herbert (called the little Luther) and Samuel Lauterbach (Lutheran Preacher). The cemetery was twice broaden in 1610 and 1630. In the 19th century the catholic cemetery was attached from the west, with the classicistic funeral house of 1819. The gallery is the unique collection of protestant sacral art of 17th and 18th century in Poland.