Ruhnu is Estonia's most isolated island, a jewel of culture and history in the middle of the Baltic Sea, where you'll find a unique environment to clean out your mind's drawers, recharge your batteries, look at the horizon and within yourself. The Ruhnu residency offers the opportunity to think, create and act away from daily distractions. To be at once productive and completely vacant, with all the tools of modern life in the midst of unspoilt nature.
There is plenty of space in the Ruhnu berry basket to hone your creative senses. 7,000 years of settlement. A Baltic Sea paradise island. The Gulf of Riga floating history museum. A place of love and breakups. A Viking storm shelter. The vanishing thousand-year culture. The first fully digital island of the country combined with untouched forests and endless sandy beaches. Home of seal hunters and boat builders. Former Soviet frontier zone. Hippies and creators. Submarines and eels. Medieval Courland colony. The oldest wooden building in the Baltics. Pirates. Eiffel-designed lighthouse.
Ruhnu's white sandy beaches left a lasting impression on a succession of Estonia's cultural bulwarks from film to literature, art and photograhy. Estonia's smallest cultural festival, RuhnuRahu, brings the best artists here every year to meet the smallest audiences face-to-face and heart-to-heart.