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Additional information: The exposition comprises ecclesiastical art from 14th–20th centuries, including exquisite altarpieces and sculptures. The Silver Chamber displays treasures of the guilds, trade guilds and the Brotherhood of the Black Heads.
The museum is located in a magnificent late-Gothic church. The exposition comprises ecclesiastical art from 14th–20th centuries, including exquisite altarpieces and sculptures: the high altar (1478–1481) made in the workshop of Hermen Rode, the initial fragment of the famous painting "Danse Macabre" by Bernt Notke (end of the 15th c.) and many others.
The Silver Chamber displays treasures of the Tallinn guilds, craft corporations, Brotherhood of the Black Heads and churches. The oldest objects in the Silver Chamber originate from the 15th century, the youngest from the first decades of the 20th century, i.e. from the last years in the history of guilds in Tallinn. There is no other town in Europe in which such an extensive amount of guild silver has been preserved than in Tallinn.
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