This angel candlestick on a marble column base was inspired by 17th-century Italy. Its form and colouring could have been inspired by existing ceramic items. The round face of the angel has ruddy cheeks, while there are brown curls painted on its forehead. Angel candlesticks were always produced in pairs and formed part of serial domestic art in Gröden in the 18th and 19th centuries.

This small carved and painted sculpture shows a couple beneath a tree with a goat nibbling at the woman's bouquet. The sculpture - probably from the 1840s - reflects fashions from the end of the Biedermeier period, while it also demonstrates Gröden wood carvers' adopting of motifs from all sales regions and the manufacture of ceramic items.

This watercolour with peonies was created by Jakob Sotriffer between 1822-24 during his time as a student at the Vienna Academy, where a state-awarded grant allowed him to train as a drawing teacher and sculptor. Sotriffer came from Plajes farm in St. Ulrich and was taken on as the first teacher at the new drawing school in 1825.

Josef Senoner de Roch from Wolkenstein (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 Gröden, Senoner fell in the First World War. 

Plajes stands on visible layers of Gröden sandstone and was the birthplace and home to Jakob Sotriffer (1796-1856), the first teacher at the illustrating school founded in 1825. The school was even housed in Plajes at one point. There is an initial collection of Gröden wood carvings by Sotriffer, which he put together for the Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck in 1828 for documentation purposes. There are some examples of it in Museum Gherdëina.