The necropolis is characterized by a variety of tombstones. There are over 6,000 of them here. in different styles. Depending on the trends prevailing in the nineteenth-century art - ancient, Renaissance, Baroque and Classicist elements prevail.
The cemetery is divided by avenues. It is not a traditional Jewish cemetery, it looks more like Evangelical necropolises. You can find here a few examples of typical Jewish animal and plant symbolism, but there are signs of Masonic lodges or ornaments in the form of craft tools.
On the outer wall of the cemetery, next to four 14th-century tombstones, there is the oldest tombstone found in Poland of David, son of Szalom, who died in 1203.
The last funeral in the cemetery took place in 1942. Since 1991, the Old Jewish Cemetery has been the Museum of Cemetery Art - a branch of the City Museum in Wrocław. It currently covers an area of 4.6 ha and is the only museum of this type in Europe.