Pulling toys like these fighting goats were called 'tica-taca' in the Ladin language. In its heyday before 1914, the Val Gardena 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. 

Experimenting with forms and colours to combine tension and order in the same work of art: with the acrylic painting 'Absolute Schrift', Mili Schmalzl taught young artists at the art school in Ortisei. Schmalzl, a woman from the woodcarving valley, was born in 1912 and succeeded in getting into Italy's and Germany's art academies to train as a painter. 

This tempera painting of the Sella massif (in Ladin Sas dla Luesa, Mëisules) bathed by the evening light comes from Peter Demetz da Fëur (1913-1977), who taught in the art schools in Wolkenstein and St. Ulrich after the Second World War. The motif of the Dolomites unspoilt by human hand was often employed by this keen hiker.  

This painting, completed in 1925 by the painter Josef Moroder Lusenberg, is meant to depict Ortisei, 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. 

This cultural asset is part of the tour "The turn-of-the-century economic boom in Ortisei: villas and workshops".

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 Val Gardena. 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 Ortisei at the turn of the century. 

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. 

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. 

On the spot of the cultural centre there was once a multi-storey building constructed in 1854 in urban style by the manufacturer, Johann Baptist Purger, along with some council offices and doctor's surgery. It also served as a temporary warehouse for the toy manufacturer Anton Sotriffer. Both buildings influenced the character of parish square, until, in 1969, they had to make way for a congress hall for the 1970 Winter Olympics built at the turn of the century and bearing the name 'Casa di Cultura Luis Trenker'.

Johann Baptist Purger started living in Cësa Pana in 1832. He had the new road from Val Gardena to Ponte Gardena constructed in 1856, which played a significant role in the valley's economic boom. The building is on the original site of a farm at parish square that dates back in records to the 11th century and used to belong to the Lords of Freising. Its present appearance is an extension carried out in 1908 in the historical turn-of-the-century villa style.