[1] Today, the Plovdiv Regional Ethnographic Museum has a collection of over 40,000 exhibits distributed among the agriculture, crafts, fabrics and clothing, furniture and interior, musical instruments, religious items and works of art exhibits.

[2] The house was constructed by Hadzhi Georgi, from the Rhodopean village of Kosovo, and has been described as a prime example of Plovdiv's mid-19th century Baroque architecture.

[3][4] After the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman rule in 1878, Argir Kuyumdzhioglu left Plovdiv to settle in Vienna.

In 1930, it was acquired by the Bulgarian tobacco merchant, Antonio Colaro (Antonii Kolarov from Rouse).

[5] Colaro intended to demolish the house and build a tobacco warehouse, but he was denied permission by the Plovdiv municipality.