After an almost forty year lull in research on multiferroic materials, there has been a resurgence of interest in them. However, it is particularly challenging to synthesize a novel multiferroic material as it seems that the mechanisms that allow magnetism and ferroelectricity are mutually exclusive. One way to combine both properties is to design a material like BiFeO3: the lone pair on Bi induces polarization that causes ferroelectricity while the d electrons of the Fe ion induce ferromagnetism. Inspired by BiFeO3, BiNiO3 and BiCrO3, we have synthesized the new compound Bi2NiCrO6. The material presents a perovskite-type structure in which X-ray diffraction is compatible with the space groups Pbnm or P21/n. Thus, neutron diffraction experiments are needed to fully characterize the structure of Bi2NiCrO6 and to better understand the magnetic ordering of the new material.