Hereditarnia Club was founded in March 1996 by M.Borowiecki, I. Broere and P. Mihók in order to popularize a new area of modern graph theory - hereditary properties of graphs.

The word Hereditarnia cannot be found in any dictionary. It is a combination of English word "Heredity" and traditional polish suffix "arnia" that is used for many pleasant places (e.g. Palmiarnia) that are related to the development of the theory of hereditary properties of graphs.

Since 1998 Hereditarnia Club is organising a traditional workshop called Hereditarnia. The scientist that satisfy defined conditions can become members of Hereditarnia Club and take active part in regular General Assembly Meeting.