Very few of the original possessions of the Mozart famly still survive--only a few trinkets such as brooches, buttons, a beaded handbag, a prayer book, a locket, a watch, a few precious musical instruments -- but this reconstructed bedroom of Leopold and Maria Anna was arranged with antique furniture and trappings such as would commonly have been found in a middle class Salzburger's home.  In other words, what the Mozarts would have owned would have been something quite similar to this.

In some ways, it is all very familiar -- a copper sink basin sunken into a cabinet, which would not look out of place in a 21st Century bathroom, lacking only the modern plumbing.  Even the lovely copper pitcher looks right.  On the floor is a pewter chamber pot.  The beautiful bed is so incredibly tiny, though, that it is hard to imagine a grown man and woman sleeping in it.  By modern standards, it would have been a bed for a single child.

There were other exhibits elsewhere, where I was not allowed to take pictures and couldn't even find a postcard.  There were incredible collections of things such as trunks, chests, boxes, musical instruments, and even a huge, clunky porta-pottie such as the ones the Mozarts dragged across Europe in their personal caravan.  Therefore I can only describe them.

And I can also describe the outlandish collection of lice combs that were a standard part of everyone's dressing kit, as well as a startling collection of large bottles filled with obscure, probably mostly useless medicines, laxatives and other such things. Leopold really seems to have thought of everything!

                                                              ..... Daisy