Victoria Museum Marks Eleven Years — Summary of 2014-2025
In 2025 Victoria Museum marked the eleventh anniversary of its opening on Kyiv's Desyatynna Street — a thousand authentic costume exhibits and an active educational programme.
Victoria Museum of historical costume, founded in 2014 on Desyatynna Street in the heart of old Kyiv, marked the eleventh anniversary of its work in September 2025. During this time the collection has grown from several dozen to nearly a thousand authentic exhibits of Western European and Ukrainian attire from the 1830-1920 period. Each costume is accompanied by a detailed restoration passport documenting provenance, fabric condition, and conservation work performed.
Over eleven years thousands of visitors have passed through the museum — not only tourists, but also students of the Kyiv Academy of Arts, the Lviv Academy, costume researchers from the USA, Poland, Great Britain. The museum's educational programme includes lectures on fin-de-siècle fashion, master classes on bobbin lace-making, and the opportunity to try on exact costume replicas. A separate hall is permanently devoted to Ukrainian folk attire — vyshyvankas of Poltava, plakhtas of Hutsul region, ochipoks of Sloboda Ukraine. The anniversary programme runs through the end of 2025.
