Have you been travelling and been confused about finding museums or galleries?

And, then there's the irritation of discovering something interesting on your last day in a city, only to have insufficient time to visit that Museum or Gallery.


Museum-Tracker has been developed as an eBook directory of English European Museums and their exhibits, with the aim of assisting traveller's in not missing those opportunities...
What they exhibit, where they are and how to get there.

It's designed for use on the traveller's PDA or web enabled PHONE.

The information is categorised by major Cities and Regions, a Museum's main focus and the Museum name.

What information is provided on a Museum or Gallery
• a brief description of their exhibits
• details of their opening days and times
• the museum's Entry fee (if any)
• their Address and contact details
• booking and advance ticketing details (where applicable)
• Public transport to the museum


Featured Exhibits

An update on what's happening in the heritage world of Museums and Galleries in England and Europe – and it's incorporated into Museum-Tracker.

It lists temporary exhibits and displays, with cross reference in Museum-Tracker to the Museum or Gallery staging them. In addition, details of how to advance purchase tickets (where applicable) are provided, helping visitors beat the queues.

Info on these Featured Exhibits is available for direct access on any recent web enabled phone at $us2•50 for 30 minutes (free during April) at http://www.museum-tracker.com/mobile/

This is also incorporated into the downloadable full version of the Museum-Tracker eBook for $us9•95 (requires the freeware mobipocket eBook Reader be installed on the PHONE or PDA).


About the Author:
David Berghouse

How Museum-Tracker came about

Museum-Tracker is the end result of my growing interest in 'finding the original'.

With an engineering background, my original interest lay in early mechanical and scientific inventions, leading me to become a Foundation Member of Sydney's Powerhouse Museum when it opened in 1987. Here I found, for example, one of the Boulton & Watts Beam Engines.


Travel to Europe obviously widened considerably the opportunity to witness some of the greatest inventions of all time, such as Stevenson's Rocket (railway locomotive) in the Science Museum in London.

This whetted my curiosity to track down other original inventions and I was stunned to find how many had survived. But tracking down where the original of an invention is now housed is a time-consuming occupation.

How handy it would be to have a guide which had done the work for you, not only in relation to science, but covering a multitude of interests. Better still, if it were also able to keep you informed of the temporary exhibits for which the major museums glean priceless artifacts from all over the world.

Contact: David Berghouse
email: berghouse [at] museum-tracker.com

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