Theresia Gruber, known as Tresl da Ulëta, bequeathed Museum Gherdëina a collection of terracotta figurines and ceramic works. Daughter of two artists, and an art teacher herself, she dealt with a variety of materials all her life and was a promoter of the Ladin language back in the 1930s. In 1970, when she was 73 years old, she set up a pottery school in Belém in Brazil.  

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. 

This delicately figure of an impishly grinning Krampus carved from pear wood carries a basket to keep cigarettes in. It was made by the sculptor Franz Insam de Cësanueva from Santa Cristina, who created a series of items popular throughout the whole Habsburg empire in the 1870s - not only items such as this one for tobacco consumers, but nutcrackers, too. 

This jointed horse with rider was made from stained nut wood by Josef Insam's company at Neuhaus in Santa Cristina and was put together using 104 individual pieces. Jointed, turned figurines (for academic purposes or puppets) were produced to a height of 201 cm. Their ball-and-socket joints allowed numerous body positions and they were intended for painters and sculptors, schools and academies.

These pecking hens show that artisan production goes to make up a lot of the value and appeal of wooden toys. When large factories started to manufacture toys cheaply, prices for hand-made toys wooden toys decreased, and Val Gardena producers struggled financially. This is another reason why, after 1870, production gradually turned to wood carving and sacred items coinciding with the foundation of the art school. 

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. 

This perfectly formed single analcime crystal from the Jender valley beneath conca Zemmer is a rare find. Datolite crystals were also found here before 1900, but the site is depleted due to the rush of collectors. The area on the Alpe di Siusi between Jender river and Ciapit river in the west has revealed well-known mineral discovery sites in volcanic rock from the Triassic era (Ladinum)

The plaster sculpture of St Philomena, with martyr's palm, whip, anchor, and arrows, was created by the sculptor Dominik Mahlknecht. Born in 1793 at Rainel farm in Oltretorrente, he emigrated to Paris at the age of 16, where he rose to the position of royal court sculptor. The original sculpture stands in the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois in Paris, with a second copy at the fountain square in Ortisei, which was copied from the original plaster model in Museum Gherdëina. 

The farmhouse, partly built into the surrounding land, dates back to the 15th century. The current living quarters were converted around the start of the 20th century. For generations, jointed wooden dolls and horses as well as special crib figurines with moving parts were made at Josef Insam's family business and sold all over Europe. In times of war, production was extended to include prosthetic hands and feet.

Villa ANRI in S. Cristina, now a listed building, newly built in 1925, was used as the headquarters of the ANRI company founded in 1921 by Anton Riffeser. For this purpose, workshops, offices, warehouses, packing and exhibition spaces were housed here. ANRI products were sold as far away as the USA and in its heyday, the company employed up to 230 people. Production was moved to premises at Plan da Tieja in 1952 and ceased in 2021.