The Gherdëina Local Heritage Museum

Description

The Gherdëina Local Heritage Museum “Museum de Gherdëina” is situated right in the centre of Ortisei and exhibits valuable collections related to the cultural and natural history of Val Gardena. Fascinating folk art and colourful wooden toys, sculptures and paintings of local artists, an extensive collection of fossils and minerals as well as archaeological finds from the valley and surroundings. A special attraction is the Lenten cloth of the Saint James’ Church above Ortisei. The multimedial exhibition "Bierjun 1490. A secret Passion" shows the tiny sleeping room from the Bierjun farmhouse near Ortisei with very rare sanguine drowings from the Late Middle Ages. The delicate drowings on the wooden walls are shown through a "digital window".