The pysanky on these pages are from the Ivan Honchar ethnographic museum in Kyiv, Ukraine. 

Ivan Honchar (1911-1993) was a  Ukrainian sculptor, graphic artist, painter, folklorist, ethnographer and collector. He was born into a poor peasant family in Lypianka, Cherkasy oblast.  His artistic talents were recognized, and he was able to study at the Kyiv Art and Industrial school, where he met had the opportunity to meet with the musicologist Klymentii Kvitka and the writer Olena Pchilka.

He collected a large number of ethnographic materials and works of folk art. He created the first private museum in the Ukrainian SSR, which he arranged in his own house, built on land near the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra .

Honchar collected exhibits for the museum during improvised expeditions in Ukraine. His collection included 7,000 objects (icons, folk clothes, wooden sculptures, musical instruments, toys, metalwork), as well as 20,000 archival photos from different regions of Ukraine. In 1973 his collection was nationalized; in 1993, on the basis of his private collection, the "Ivan Honchar Museum" was founded  - a national all-Ukrainian specialized scientific, research, cultural and educational institution.

The pysanky below are from the collection and website of the Honchar museum.  They are all listed as being from Volyn but also as being from Sokal. With the exception of № 9, they are said to as have been written in the 1960s. (The exception is given dating of 1950s to 1980s.) In appearance, they do not appear to be very typical of Volyn itself, but typical of the pysanky written in the Sokal region in the 20th century; Sokal neighbors Volyn, and was once referred to as “Halyts’ka Volyn’” (Галицька Волинь). 

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