Katharina Kasslatter, known as Trina da Gustin, was one of the first students at the specialist school in Selva Gardena, opened in 1908. This small sculpture out of Swiss pine depicts her sitting on her work stool wearing her traditional costume. Kasslatter started learning wood carving from her mother when she was eight years old. She signed her works in order to set herself apart from anonymous domestic producers.

Students and teachers of both art schools in Val Gardena made a panelled room for the 1925 International Exhibition in Paris that was awarded the Grand Prix and three other medals for its sculptural features. The panelling is an example of the stylistic renewal going on in Val Gardena art during the wars, which was mainly thanks to the head of the art school at the time, Guido Balsamo Stella.

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

This carved, unvarnished sculpture shows Diana, the Roman goddess of hunting, with her right arm around a deer and a bouquet of flowers in her left arm. There is a bow and arrow in front of her. This small figurine is an expression of the stylistic renewal going on in the two Val Gardena art schools, which started to embrace art nouveau during the 1920s under the management of Guido Balsamo Stella. 

In 1925, both art schools in Val Gardena took part in the International Exhibition in Paris. Albino Pitscheider, a master in carving small works of art and art teacher in Selva Gardena from 1910 to 1924 as well as from 1919 to 1940, was awarded a gold medal along with his colleague Lusi Insam. The octagonal medal shows an allegory of spring on one side, while it has a bouquet of flowers on the other side. 

In 1920, ANRI brought twelve statuettes by Charles Dickens onto the market intended for a new target group and exported to the USA. These three figurines in the Museum Gherdëina collection depict the bootblack Sam Weller and bourgeois Mr Pickwick and Mr Pecksniff. They could be older carved models for serial production. 

The carver's expertise is evident in the realistically rendered fur of this bear carved from Swiss pine wood. In order to safely guide the blade, the carver's thumb rested on the wood, while the handmade sweeping movements, which allowed the surface to be modelled quickly. Wood carvers from Val Gardena were considered to be extremely swift in their technique. 

Animal motifs like this reclining cow made from unvarnished arolla pine wood were carved mainly in Val di Funes during the 19th century and up to the First World War. A range of animals were depicted: exotic beasts from Noah's Ark, yet there were also examples of local animals, mostly characteristic of Alpine romanticism. 

A woman with a basket on her back, a man with a sack slung over his shoulder: carved figurines of vagabonds and beggars were a speciality for Val Gardena artists from the last third of the 18th century. They usually come in pairs and are depicted in a very realistic manner: haggard, often crippled, with ragged clothes, walking stick and hat. Missing or worn-out shoes are another feature of Val Gardena figurines.  

Flagellation, a crown of thorns, hammer, nails, pliers, lances, vinegar-soaked sponge and ladder, dice and Jesus' garments: nothing connected with Christ's crucifixion was left out of this baroque crucifixion group from Val Gardena. The reason is simple: the Instruments of the Passion were considered powerful weapons in the fight against evil. The house that this devotional item originates from is not known.  

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.