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"Great is the power of memory that dwells in places." (from Cicero)

Iron saw

This iron saw with turned handle is a sign of hardship amongst some Gröden wood carvers before the First World War. It was used for felling trees to get wood for their products. These wood carvers could not afford to purchase wood with their earnings, and around 2000 trees were 'stolen' each year from local forests in the 1870s and 1880s.

The Costamula trunk

Trunks for storing the bride's trousseau before the wedding were also common in Gröden well into the 20th century. This unusual wedding trunk is made with arolla pine on the outside and spruce wood on the inside, while on the front there are two large rosette shapes with a sun motif. The year 1566 indicates the year of manufacture or the wedding, the letters I and T show the initials of the owner.

View of St. Ulrich in 1860

This painting, completed in 1925 by the painter Josef Moroder Lusenberg, is meant to depict St. Ulrich, the village where he grew up in the 1860s as seen from his house. This retrospective look is connected with the profound developments occurring in the valley in the wake of the booming art and tourist trade up until the First World War, causing farming to decline in importance.

The organ grinder

This oil painting, created by Josef Moroder Lusenberg in 1912, shows an organ grinder entertaining a group of barefoot children in front of a farmhouse in Gröden. The children seem fascinated by the monkey sitting on his street organ, while two girls watch a little way off doing embroidery with their mother - no doubt intended as an observation of social diversification in St. Ulrich at the turn of the century.

Augustine the wanderer

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. 

Bust of Louis Trenker

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 St. Ulrich, 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.