The Institute is located in the Staszic Palace in the center of Warsaw, near the Copernicus monument.
Among its founders were professors: Bogdan Suchodolski and Aleksander Birkenmajer.
In the mid 1970s, it was renamed to the Institute for the History of Science, Education and Technology.
Since 1994, the name has been shortened to the Institute for the History of Science, but with its previous research scope.
The head of its present Academic Council is Leszek Zasztowt.