Helping you make the most of your time in Europe …

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.

Enter Museum-Tracker.

Bon Voyage
David Berghouse

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