Organised in reconstructed prison interiors, it presents the history of Poles' struggle for national liberation and social change in the era of the Partitions against the backdrop of the building's history, by presenting the profiles of people imprisoned here and the events and organisations in which they were active, from the independence plots of the 1830s to the regaining of independence in 1918. It consists of files of the tsarist repressive authorities: prison, investigation and court documents, the press and pamphlets of individual organisations, photographs of leading prisoners, personal mementos left behind, realia and works of art, as well as the name cells of many prominent Poles imprisoned here. The 10th Pavilion, as a place where the fate of many later cadaver and exile inmates was decided, also exhibits the martyrdom of Poles in Siberia in the era of the Partitions, shown, among other things, in the collection of works by the painter - Siberian Aleksander Sochaczewski, also a prisoner of the 10th Pavilion.