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Petersburg and Finnish science: contacts and urges
"Petersburg and Finnish science: contacts and urges"
14-28 April, 2009
The Exhibition timed to the opening traditional days of Saint-Petersburg in Helsinki. The program of this festival is dedicated to 200 years of founding of the Finnish statehood.
The aim of the exhibition is to tell about collaboration of the Finnish and Russian scientists, local historians, collectors and artists who took part in acquisition of funds of the Russian Museum of Ethnography, which has one of the complete collections on history and traditional culture of Finno-Ugric peoples of the Russian Empire in late XIX - early XX cen. Uno Tavi Sirellius, the head of the Finno-Ugric School of Finland acquired the first and the most comprehensive collection on ethnography of the Suomi Finns, took part in creation of the Finnish fund in the Russian Museum of Ethnography.
The most striking memorials from the photo-collection of the Russian Museum of Ethnography are presented at the exhibition. On the unique photographs of the late XIX - early XX cen. people, their traditional occupations, ceremonies and festive feasts were imprinted.
The exhibition is supplemented with video of the most valuable exhibits from the Finno-Ugric collection of the Museum such as gowns, jewelry, ritual objects.
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