The collection of local antiquities set up by the Silesian pastor Leonhard David Hermann (1670-1736) is typical for the baroque period. Hermann described the presentation of pagan urns in his book 'Maslographia', a natural historical description of his home village Massel. The urns were arranged in a wooden pyramidal cabinet, which was decorated with allegories and biblical quotations, and crowned by a miniature-globe with wings and an hourglass. The prehistoric urns stood not only for an eerie paganism, but also for the baroque mentality of "memento mori" - always remembering death. The pyramidal cabinet thus joins in its symbolic program antiquarian curiosity and baroque piety.