Most of the costumes came to the Novoaidar Museum from the workshop of Ksenia Likhacheva.
Ksenia was a very skilled and well-known seamstress in the whole Novoaidar district. Both fashionistas and poor women of the district sewed clothes for her, so many costumes were made in Ksenia Lykhachova's workshop, where the village Kolyadiv Museum is now located. Other costumes got to the Novoaydarsky museum as a result of research expeditions of museum workers on villages of the area. The collection, which has been collected for almost 20 years, is stored in the district museum of local lore. The collection includes more than 30 authentic costumes, each of which is a sample of culture and art of those ethnic groups that made up the population of Novoaidar district during the settlement of these territories, namely: descendants of Zaporozhye and Don Cossacks; migrants from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Poltava provinces of Ukraine; from the Kursk, Orel, and Belgorod provinces of Russia, and later in 1945 they were joined by Lemkos, ethnic Ukrainians who had been forcibly relocated from Ukrainian ethnic territory that had been ceded to Poland after World War II.
The museum's collection is the largest in the region and the most valuable research material that can consolidate the local population around the theme of presenting individual stories through the prism of costumes.
