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 Val Gardena. Carved depictions of the nativity story were developed in the Middle Ages, and, as of the 18th century, lots of families in Val Gardena specialised in carving crib figurines. 

This porphyry trough hewn from a stone block with the year 1868 engraved on it used to stand near Hotel Adler and was a place for horses to drink. At four metres in length, it is the largest of some 50 porphyry troughs that used to be in Val Gardena; it has been standing in the museum garden since 1960. It is attributed to the stonemason Scola Petru from Falcade, who founded a stonemason's business in Pontives. 

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. 

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.

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 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. 

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 Ortisei and was taken on as the first teacher at the new drawing school in 1825. 

The only Lenten cloth in South Tyrol used to cover the altar during Lent. The story of salvation is told in 24 pictures: from Christ's suffering to the Ascension and Whitsun. The spaces are ordered into four rows; the scenes teem with figures. The cloth painted with tempera on primed canvas was in use in St. Jakob's chapel until 1950, painter unknown. 

This cultural asset is part of the tour "St. Jacob and its over-500-year-old farms".

The small bellerophon cuboid depicting St. George slaying the dragon was created by Luis Piazza da Cudan (born 1908). The work reflects Piazza's love of stylisation, which marked him out as one of the more innovative Val Gardena artists. A bronze copy of the original relief adorns the upper part of the fountain on the porphyry trough in front of the museum.