Budapest's Museum of Ethnography will examine Hungarians' view of Finns, whose language is one of the only in the world similar to Hungarian, in an exhibition entitled How We See the Finns? - Finland: A Hungarian Perspective, from June 27 until November 28, 2010.
The exhibition will explore factors that have shaped and influenced how Hungarians have viewed the Finns from the late 19th century until the present.
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"How We See the Finns addresses the issue of tradition, acquainting the visitor both with how the Finns have viewed tradition over the years, and with how Finnish tradition is seen by Hungarians. Is tradition - or the lack thereof - the driving force in social organisation? What is the relationship between tradition and (post)modernism?" the museum says on its website.
The exhibition first lays down the importance of the Finno-Ugric kinship between the Finns and the Hungarians. Then it shows stereotypes of the Finns, namely that the country's modernisation has been accompanied by a close relationship to nature.
The exhibition's chief curator is Zsuzsanna Szarvas.
