Curiosities

A cabinet of things to open

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 are different. Each one is a small machine: turn a handle and it tells you something the running text could not.

**A jewelled collar of the kind a Habsburg would have worn with the Golden Fleece**

The Cabinet
Eleven true things, in the order they happened: Roman stones in the castle walls, a forged archduchy, five vowels nobody explained, an elephant crossing the Alps and a law about vampires. Open a drawer.
The Madrigal Affair
A baker, a missing king, and a nun who said it was him. A scandal of 1594, drawn as a family and stepped through one line at a time.