The Institute of Music and Dance (IMiT) was established on 1 October 2010 by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. It operates as a state-run cultural institution. The Institute’s basic mission is to support the development of music and dance culture in Poland.

The IMiT runs or co-runs numerous websites, including the Polish artistic dance website/database (ww.taniecpolska.pl) and, together with the Polish Composers' Union (ZKP), a website/database of the Polish Music Information Centre (www.polmic.pl), as well as websites dedicated to Polish instruments (www.instruments.edu.pl) and to traditional, national and historical dances (www.dances.edu.pl), the Kolberg Academy website (www.akademiakolberga.pl), a website dedicated to traditional music (www.muzykatradycyjna.pl), and the websites of the Witold Lutosławski Society (www.lutoslawski.org.pl) and the Oskar Kolberg Institute (www.oskarkolberg.pl).

imit.org.pl