A cabinet of things to open
Curiosities
Six corners of the site that do something when you touch them
A family history can be read straight through, and most of this site is written to be read that way. These six are different. Each one is a small machine: turn a handle and it tells you something the running text could not.
- On this day
Pick a date — today, your birthday, any day — and find out what the house was doing on it. Five hundred years of them are in here. - The Cabinet
Objects rather than people: the things the family kept, wore, signed and was buried with, and what each one was actually for. - Voices and languages
Charles V grew up speaking French, learned Spanish because he had to, and ruled in a dozen tongues he did not share. Hear how the house sounded. - The Manners Kit
How to enter a room, how to be addressed, and what a bow meant in 1560. Rather more practical than it sounds, and rather funnier. - The Margin and the Stage
Who stood in the light, who stood just outside it, and how quickly a person could move from one to the other. - The Madrigal Affair
A piece of music, a misunderstanding, and a small scandal that took four centuries to explain.
Still being built
Two more are in the workshop and are not ready to be shown. They will appear here when they are, and not before.