Duke Casimir II the Just established the castle in the 12th century, when the hill was fortified with a wood-reinforced earthen wall. A stone keep followed in the first half of the 13th century, and Casimir III the Great added stone walls in the 14th. The Holy Trinity Chapel received frescoes by the Ruthenian painter Master Andrej by 1418, commissioned by Władysław II Jagiełło. The article names no architect for any phase.
The 17th-century wars left it in disrepair. A reconstruction from 1826 to 1828 turned it into a prison in English neo-Gothic style, keeping only the keep and chapel in original form. The infobox also lists Polish Gothic, and gives a demolition of 1655 to 1657 that the text does not describe.
It was a prison until 1954, and has housed the National Museum in Lublin since 1957. It is a Historic Monument of Poland.
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