St. Catherine’s Passage

St. Catherine’s Passage is a landmark combining master craftsmen’s workshops with a medieval atmosphere.

St. Catherine’s Passage (Katariina käik) connects Vene and Müürivahe streets. You can see the remaining portions of St. Catherine’s Church in the northern part of the passage. Residential buildings from the 15th to the 17th centuries stand along the sides of the southern section of the Passage.

The Passage was rediscovered and given new life in the summer of 1995, but is still imbued with a medieval milieu.

The open studios of artisans are now located here, and visitors can watch artists and craftsmen practise their craft daily. While each studio is unique in appearance and function, they are all united in the principle of the open studio: here one can view works not only as finished products, as in an ordinary gallery, but also as the end product of various processes that the open studio presents to the visitor.