The Sikh Heritage Centre & Holocaust Museum

Description:

The National Sikh Heritage Centre is a modern museum that allows the visitor to appreciate the rich and complex heritage of the Sikhs.

It is a modern, packed, multi-channel museum with real artefacts that allow the visitor to appreciate the rich and complex heritage of the Sikhs in a story of courage, sacrifice, and bloody genocide.

The National Sikh Heritage Centre is the culmination years of hard work by a dedicated group of Sikhs whose efforts resulted is a new attraction, which tells the British-Sikh version of their heritage.

And its aim is to "conserve, preserve, interpret, promote and inspire the special British-Sikh relationship like never before".

Supported by English Heritage, the Imperial War Museum, the V&A and the British Army, the new National Sikh Heritage Centre & Holocaust Museum is located in Princes Street, Derby.  It is open Monday to Friday 10am to 12pm, and then from 6pm to 8pm.  On Saturdays and Sundays, it is open 11am to 2pm.  Admission is free.

A current "We Were There" exhibition, meanwhile, highlights the significant, but little known, contribution made by Britain's ethnic minorities to the defence of the nation over the past 250 years.