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What's on in European Museums & Galleries - on Your Phone
A quick find eBook directory of English European Museums and their exhibits for PDAs and PHONES.
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April 24, 2008 (FPRC) --
Have you been travelling and been hassled 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.
Most people leave it until you get there to work out what you want to see.
That way so much time is wasted - and they probably miss out on something interesting.
Museum-Tracker is an eBook Directory giving you details of significant museums and galleries in England and Europe, assisting travellers in finding those opportunities.
Know what's on.
Listing significant temporary exhibits and displays, with a cross-reference to details of the Museum or Gallery staging the exhibit.
On a PHONE
Details of the new temporary exhibits are available for direct access on any recent web enabled mobile phones (an access fee of $us2·50 applies). See http://www.museum-tracker.com/mobile/
Beat the queues.
There are details on how to advance pruchase tickets (if necessary) - helping you beat the queues.
Then there is information on nearly 400 Museums and Galleries, categorised by major Cities and Regions, a Museum's main focus and the Museum name.
Information provided on a Museum or Gallery includes:
· 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
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). Details at -
http://www.museum-tracker.com/
About the Author:
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. There was a profound sense of awe in finding myself in front of the original engine, a seeming myth ever since childhood. I was surprised to find how the reality was so much smaller than I imagined; yet this in no way diminished the sense that I was standing in the presence of a genius, of something which had fundamentally changed the way the world worked.
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.
David Berghouse
berghouse [at] museum-tracker.com
Send an email to David Berghouse of Museum-Tracker
+61 409 609 680
Keywords:
Museum Tracker, museum, gallery
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