For a long time, dancing battle horses were children's favourite toys at the time of the Habsburg empire, with the items to be painted sent to Oberammergau at first. It was not until 1800 that the people of Gröden came up with the procedure for the right composition of colour and varnish. And even then, only certain items like doll's heads and rocking horses were painted, mainly by women.

Pinocchio and Fortunello demonstrate how political change, the vicissitudes of the market, as well as fashion and technology, taste and educational methods have influenced the development of wooden toys in Gröden. Vinzenz Senoner's (Vastlè, Wolkenstein) SEVI company managed to keep pace with the societal changes of the 20th century and adapt to new markets with a supply of high-quality products.

Mobile fish, red elephants, ducks to tow: designers from Italy and German were always developing new motifs commissioned by SEVI. New technology allowed the expansion of the product range and materials, too. This is how SEVI had the whole children's toy area covered. Yet the products still kept their originality and had artistic impact.

Most toys from Gröden were mass produced, yet there were also some carefully made unique items, like this post wagon with access door, double shafts, yellow varnishing and the writing 'K.K. Post'. As of 1856, post wagons accessed Gröden on the road through the valley, and in 1867 Gröden was joined up with the Brennerbahn railway via Waidbruck, which made doing business in the valley a lot easier.

Pulling toys like these fighting goats were called 'tica-taca' in the Ladin language. In its heyday before 1914, the Gröden range comprised up to 500 articles, including dolls, horses, carts, waggon, hampelmans, marble games, tightrope walking toys, acrobats and all kinds of figurines. There was no protection of designs, and items could be copied by other producers. 

Pendulum toys were produced from the end of the 19th century to the start of the 20th century. This toy cow lowers its head to the trough when the pendulum swings, while the calf lifts its head up to drink milk. The wooden ball was produced on the lathe by making balls shaped like on a string of pearls and then separating them from each other. In 1877, there were 300 foot-powered and 60 water-powered lathes in Gröden.

After jointed dolls, carved animals were the most important items in the Gröden range. Most of these were horses: rocking horses, draft horses for all sorts of carts and horses on wheels. These horses were painted and delivered in all sizes: from little toy figurines to ones that children could sit on.

It was customary to put pocket watches, considered valuable objects, on display in living rooms enclosed in ornately carved, partially gilded watch stands. Watch stands were a item commonly produced in Gröden from the mid-18th century until the 1870s, often featuring an allegorical depiction of time as an elderly man with a beard and wings. He usually held a sickle or scythe, later also a sand glass.

This small sculpture with a flat back is an example of the anonymous domestic art popular in the 17th and 18th centuries all over the valley. It shows Adam and Eve under the apple tree. Eva is offering the apple to Adam and neither has yet eaten it. The snake as symbol of temptation is missing. The little sculpture was propably a private devotional work.

This small arolla pine sculpture of the holy family on their flight to Egypt dates back to the 17th century. It is one of the oldest works in Museum Gherdëina and an early example of wood carving in Gröden. Carved depictions of the nativity story were developed in the Middle Ages, and, as of the 18th century, lots of families in Gröden specialised in carving crib figurines.