Open-air Museum

 

All the way to the refuge, little wooden creatures such as: owls, hawks, hares, groundhogs, woodpeckers, capercaillies, foxes and eagles are hidden behind branches and stones. But between trees you may also find curious gnomes watching you …

Approaching the refuge, the sculptures become bigger: here is the grandfather indicating the right path to the shelter to his nephews while not too far away there is a couple of chamois and ibex, but also a villager who …ehm ….caught by a sudden urge.. hides behind a stone.

The open-air museum sculptures are made by using a special type of wood that will last long time in the open air.
The only exception is the Madonna that was inserted into a cave to withstand the high mountain weather.

 

While walking you will feel like being in a treasure hunt among wooden sculptures and the scents of the mountain.
Most of those works of art (about 100/120 sculptures) were carved by the Siro Viérin .