Luis Trenker is one of Val Gardena’s most renowned locals. Since 1992, he has been seated on the promenade that bears his name in the form of a bronze sculpture created by Hermann Josef Runggaldier.

In the 1930s Trenker enjoyed career as an actor and director which remains critically acclaimed to this day and, in the post-war years, went on to promote the development of tourism through radio and TV narrations of his memoirs. 

Val Gardena owes its first valley road, which ran from Ponte Gardena to Ortisei and opened in 1856, to Johann Baptist Purger, merchant and mayor of Ortisei. In creating a link between the valley with the wider world, the road brought new opportunities for the sale of Val Gardena products and fostered the emergent tourism industry of the era.
In commemoration of Purger’s prescience and achievement, a wooden statue was erected on the Purger bridge at the entrance to the village in 1921. In the road’s centenary year, this statue was replaced with a bronze sculpture. 

Josef Senoner de Roch from Selva Gardena (born 1886) created this wooden sculpture of a vagabond before moving to Vienna, where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts. Senoner had already made wooden toys with his father and later learned to carve wood, amongst other things, at zu Domur workshop. One of the most able sculptors in Val Gardena, Senoner fell in the First World War. 

The small bellerophon cuboid depicting St. George slaying the dragon was created by Luis Piazza da Cudan (born 1908). The work reflects Piazza's love of stylisation, which marked him out as one of the more innovative Val Gardena artists. A bronze copy of the original relief adorns the upper part of the fountain on the porphyry trough in front of the museum. 

This crib in the shape of a 2.3-metre-high and 1.8-metre-wide winged altar was made in 1947 by Luis Insam from Ortisei for his family. The altar, reminiscent of neo-Gothic style, is carved from Swiss pine and is unvarnished. It depicts the three kings on their journey to Bethlehem, the shepherds' adoration and, on its wings, there are reliefs showing the nativity story, for which the artist deploys a rural farm setting. 

The original summit cross at Sëurasas with the life-size figure of Christ comes from the young sculptors Vinzenz Peristi and Baptist Walpoth. It was fashioned out of Swiss pine in 1932 on that very spot on the mountain. The dramatic depiction of Jesus' emaciated body and anguished face is remarkable. Peristi fell during the Second World War, while Walpoth had already been killed in a hunting accident. There has been a replica in the place of the original since 1959. 

The wooden sculpture of Saint Barbara, patron saint of miners and railway workers, was carved by Johann Baptist Moroder in 1914. It was originally located in a specially designed niche above the former railway tunnel behind Ortisei parish church. The original is now in Museum Gherdëina, and a bronze copy is located near the old locomotive in Bahnhofstraße in Ortisei. 

This cultural asset is part of the tour "Ortisei: a stroll through the village centre and its history". 

The bronze bust of Luis Trenker by the sculptor David Moroder was created in 1984 while Trenker was still alive. The bust of the mountaineer, architect, actor, director and storyteller, who was born in Ortisei, was unveiled in its current location in front of Museum Gherdëina in 2001. It commemorates one of the valley's most famous sons, to whom the museum dedicates a whole special exhibition area.

The plaster sculpture of St Philomena, with martyr's palm, whip, anchor, and arrows, was created by the sculptor Dominik Mahlknecht. Born in 1793 at Rainel farm in Oltretorrente, he emigrated to Paris at the age of 16, where he rose to the position of royal court sculptor. The original sculpture stands in the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois in Paris, with a second copy at the fountain square in Ortisei, which was copied from the original plaster model in Museum Gherdëina. 

The carved, brightly painted, and partially gilded wooden sculpture of Saint Ulrich stood in the old parish church at the cemetery. It is a late work by a sculptor from the Vinazer school and depicts Saint Ulrich, the patron saint, wearing a mitre and bishop's vestments, holding a staff, as well as a fish resting on the Book of Gospels. Ulrich was the Bishop of Augsburg around the year 1000. His veneration was brought to Val Gardena by the medieval lords of the manor.