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. The Ruhnu residency offers the opportunity to think, create and act away from distractions. To be at once maximally productive and completely empty, with all the tools of modern life in the midst of unspoilt nature.
There is plenty of room in the Ruhnu berry basket to sharpen your senses. 7,000 years of settlement. A Baltic paradise. Gulf of Riga Museum. A place of loves and breaks. A Viking storm shelter. The vanishing Ruthenian culture. The first digital and green forest. Home of seal hunters and boat masters. The Soviet frontier zone. Hippies and creators. Submarines and eels. Pallas artists. Kurland colony. The oldest wooden building in the Baltics. Sea robbers. Eiffel lighthouse.
Ruhnu's snow-white sandy beaches have been left a lasting impression by Theodor Luts, Andres Sööt, Mark Soosaar, Eerik Haamer, August Gailit, Olav Neuland, Aadu Hint, Carl Sarap and others. 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.