Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art

The municipal bathhouse was built in 1905, including recreational and sports facilities (a three-storey brick building with a basement, 2 floors, an attic and a partial cellar).

In reality it was a place for deactivation of personal radioactive contamination for the Żarnowiec Nuclear Power Plant.

In 1987 the bathhouse was put out of operation due to a poor technical condition and scheduled for a complete renovation.

First exhibitions in the building of the bathhouse took place in 1992 on the initiative of students of the Academy of Fine Arts (pl:Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku) and artists associated with the Wyspa Gallery.

[3] At the same time artists attempted to create there a permanent institution for presentation of contemporary art.