 Polish Institute and Skorski Museum, main entrance | |
| Formation | 2 May 1945 |
|---|---|
| Type | Learned society |
| Registration no. | 312168 |
| Legal status | Registered charity |
| Purpose | Archival, educational, historical, and museological |
| Headquarters | 20 Prince's Gate, London, SW7 1PT |
| Services | Research and publications, lectures and events, heritage conservation, and exhibitions |
Chairman | Danuta Bildziuk |
Head of Archives | Andrzej Suchcitz |
| Website | www.pism.org.uk |
The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum (Polish: Instytut Polski i Muzeum im. Gen. Sikorskiego), known as Sikorski Institute, named after General Władysław Sikorski, is a leading London-based museum and archive for research into Poland during World War II and the Polish diaspora. It is a non-governmental organisation managed by scholars from the Polish community in the United Kingdom, housed at 20 Prince's Gate in West London, in a Grade II listed terrace on Kensington Road facing Hyde Park.[1] It is incidentally part of the same Victorian development by Charles James Freake as the nearby Polish Hearth Club.[2] Although the institute is closer to the commercial centres of Kensington, it is just within the City of Westminster. In 1988 it merged with the formerly independent Polish Underground Movement (1939–1945) Study Trust – (Polish: Studium Polski Podziemnej w Londynie).
- ^ Historic England, "20 Prince's Gate (1265482)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 14 July 2016
- ^ 'Princes Gate and Princes Gardens: the Freake Estate, Development by C.J. Freake', in Survey of London: Volume 45, Knightsbridge, ed. John Greenacombe (London, 2000), pp. 191–205. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol45/pp191-205 [accessed 28 February 2020]. See plate 90.