Gherdeina Local Heritage Museum is located in Ortisei town centre, Val Gardena. The museum exhibits valuable collections explaining the cultural and natural history of the Gardena Valley. The museum exhibits important paintings and woodcarving artistic items, some even 400 years old. One can also see an ancient wooden toys collection; collections of minerals, fossilised plants and fossils of extinct marine creatures. The museum shows the way Dolomites formed and the structure role as a coral reef, 200 million years ago.