NL.01 · On display
The Solar System
An orbital atlas
Tap a planet and it tells you its story. A touch-first tour of the solar system, built for dark rooms, short attention spans and small hands.
Interactive learning
Please do not touch.Please touch.
Museums are full of signs asking visitors not to touch. Notla Learn builds the part of the gallery where they're welcome to. Digital interactives for museums and learning spaces, made in Swansea. Visitors scan a QR code on the wall, and the piece opens in their hands.
On display now
Open them on your phone.
No installation, no logins, no visitor data collected. Judge the work before you ever email us.
Why learning teams choose these
Built for gallery reality.
Nothing to install
Visitors scan a QR code and the piece opens on their phone, hosted by Notla Learn. No app store, no downloads, nothing for your IT team to adopt.
Shaped with you
Every piece is shaped with you, around your collection and your learning outcomes. Delivered in English, and in Cymraeg when you need it.
One fixed fee
Agreed before any work begins, it slots straight into a Heritage Fund or Arts Council budget line, and it does not move.
Before you email
Take the fit check
Find out in thirty seconds.
Six yes-or-no questions about your project, marked like a condition report. One of the possible answers is "probably not us".
The open call
Read the open call→
Once a year, one museum or learning institution gets a piece built entirely free of charge. Proposals are one page.
Next step
Bring a gallery problem.
Somewhere in your gallery, an object is still being walked past. A twenty minute conversation costs nothing, and if an interactive is not the right answer, we will tell you so.
The collection
Open them yourself.
Every piece opens from a link on any phone. No apps, no logins, no visitor data collected. The demo is the pitch.
NL.02 · On display
Money is Time
What things really cost
Turns any price into the hours of work it takes to earn. Suddenly the trainers cost a weekend, the phone costs a month, and money starts to make sense.
NL.03 · On display
Knights School
Chivalry, hands-on
How to be a knight, from polishing the armour to living by the code of chivalry. Built for castles, keeps and medieval collections.
NL.04 · On display
The Human Story
Deep time, in your hand
Wind the dial and the years fly past: 3.3 million of them, from the first stone tools to the present day. The whole human story, one turn at a time.
NL.05 · Space reserved
Your collection
Commissioned work
Every museum has one object visitors walk straight past. Commission an interactive that makes it the one they cannot leave alone.
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NL.01 · On display
The Solar System
An orbital atlas
Tap a planet and it tells you its story. A touch-first tour of the solar system with a dark, gallery-friendly design that rewards curiosity without rushing anyone. Built for dwell time, not throughput.
Open the interactive
Object record
- Medium
- A web page at its own link. Nothing to install.
- Delivery
- A link, a QR code and printed signage for your gallery. Hosted by Notla Learn, or self-hosted if you prefer.
- Runs on
- Visitors' own phones, or any tablet or kiosk you provide
- Languages
- English · Cymraeg on request
- Access
- Touch-first with large targets, no time limits, and nothing that depends on sound
- Data
- None collected. Nothing to add to your privacy register.
- Availability
- Site licence, or adapted to your venue and branding
In the gallery
Lives behind a QR code on a sign beside the object, on a fixed kiosk, or on a tablet on a handling trolley. The dark palette is designed to feel at home in a low-lit space rather than glowing like an office screen.
Who it is for
Families on a wet Saturday, school groups doing a space topic, and any visitor who has ever wondered what Neptune is actually like. Content can be tuned to your audiences and reading ages during adaptation.
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NL.02 · On display
Money is Time
What things really cost
Enter a price and a wage, and Money is Time turns pounds into hours of a working life, using real UK take-home pay. The trainers become a whole weekend; the contract phone becomes a month. It is the quickest way we know to make money mean something.
Open the interactive
Object record
- Medium
- A web page at its own link. Nothing to install.
- Delivery
- A link, a QR code and printed signage for your gallery. Hosted by Notla Learn, or self-hosted if you prefer.
- Runs on
- Visitors' own phones, or any tablet or kiosk you provide
- Languages
- English · Cymraeg on request
- Access
- Touch-first with large targets, no time limits, and nothing that depends on sound
- Data
- None collected. Nothing to add to your privacy register.
- Availability
- Site licence, or adapted to your venue and collection
In the gallery
A natural fit for social history, industry and commerce collections, where money is already all over the labels and rarely explained. Works as a gallery piece, a learning-space activity, or the digital half of a workshop.
Who it is for
Family programmes, schools sessions on money, and every teenager who has ever wanted the trainers. Prices, wages and examples can be tuned to your audiences during adaptation.
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NL.03 · On display
Knights School
Chivalry, hands-on
How to be a knight, from polishing the armour to living by the code of chivalry. A hands-on piece for the places where the armour is behind glass and the itch to try it on is not.
Open the interactive
Object record
- Medium
- A web page at its own link. Nothing to install.
- Delivery
- A link, a QR code and printed signage for your gallery. Hosted by Notla Learn, or self-hosted if you prefer.
- Runs on
- Visitors' own phones, or any tablet or kiosk you provide
- Languages
- English · Cymraeg on request
- Access
- Touch-first with large targets, no time limits, and nothing that depends on sound
- Data
- None collected. Nothing to add to your privacy register.
- Availability
- Site licence, or adapted to your castle or collection
In the gallery
Made for the places where medieval life is closest to hand: castle sites, keeps, great halls and medieval galleries. Works from a sign beside the armour, or in the learning space before the tower climb.
Who it is for
School groups doing the castles topic, families storming the keep on a Saturday, and anyone who has ever wondered how heavy a sword really was. Content can be tuned to your site's own history during adaptation.
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NL.04 · On display
The Human Story
Deep time, in your hand
A clock face you wind back through deep time. 159 moments across ten eras, from the first stone tools 3.3 million years ago to the world outside the window, each one a tap away.
Open the interactive
Object record
- Medium
- A web page at its own link. Nothing to install.
- Delivery
- A link, a QR code and printed signage for your gallery. Hosted by Notla Learn, or self-hosted if you prefer.
- Runs on
- Visitors' own phones, or any tablet or kiosk you provide
- Languages
- English · Cymraeg on request
- Access
- Touch-first with large targets, no time limits, and nothing that depends on sound
- Data
- None collected. Nothing to add to your privacy register.
- Availability
- Site licence, or adapted to your collection and period
In the gallery
Made for archaeology, natural history and world culture galleries, where a handaxe or a hominin skull needs its million years of context. Works from a sign beside the case, or as the spine of a timeline display.
Who it is for
School groups doing prehistory, families who ask how old that is, and anyone who has stood in front of a flint tool trying to feel the distance. Eras and events can be tuned to your collection during adaptation.
Ways of working
Three ways to bring one in.
For museums, galleries, science centres and other learning institutions. Choose the route that fits your gallery, your timeline and your budget.
Adapt
An existing piece, made yours
Your branding, your objects, your languages. The fastest route to something on the gallery floor, and the gentlest on a small budget.
Commission
A bespoke interactive
Built around your collection and your learning outcomes, from first sketch to launch day. The strongest fit for funded projects and redisplays.
Licence
Off the shelf, on your wall
The existing pieces at your own link, on a simple annual site licence with hosting and updates included.
Every engagement is a fixed fee, agreed in advance: a number you can put in a funding report before the work begins. No day rates and no surprises. If a funded project is involved, the scope is shaped to the budget line, not the other way round. And once a year, one piece is built for nothing at all: read the open call.
The process
How a commission runs.
0
The fit check
Yours to take before you email: six yes-or-no questions, thirty seconds, and an honest verdict either way. Take it now.
1
A conversation
Twenty minutes, no charge. You bring the gallery problem, the object or the audience. If an interactive is not the right answer, we will say so.
2
Scope and fee
One page setting out what will be built, what it will achieve and the fixed fee. Agreed before any work begins.
3
The build
You see the piece working early and often, at a live link you can open on any phone, with time built in for your team to react.
4
Launch and handover
Your piece goes live at its own web address, looked after by Notla Learn. You get the QR code and printed signage ready for the wall: visitors scan it, and the piece opens. If you ever want to take it in-house, everything is handed over without fuss. Nothing is locked in.
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The open call
One commission a year, free of charge.
Each year Notla Learn builds one interactive entirely free for a museum, gallery, science centre, library or other learning institution. The same process, the same handover, the same piece at its own link. The only difference is the invoice.
Why free? Because the venues with the best objects are not always the venues with digital budgets, and the collection deserves better than that. And honestly: a piece being touched in a real gallery says more about this work than any advert could.
Your one-page proposal
- The object, space or idea you would build it around.
- The audience it is for, and what you would want the piece to do for them.
- Your venue and a contact, plus a line on why the budget is not there.
One page is plenty. Proposals are read as they arrive and one is chosen each year.
Open to museums, galleries, science centres, libraries and other learning institutions in the UK.
Send it to officemanager@notlalearn.com.
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Before you get in touch
Are we a good fit?
Six honest yes-or-no questions about your project, marked like a condition report. Thirty seconds, no email required, and one of the possible answers is "probably not us".
Provenance
Made in Swansea.
Somewhere in your building there is an object with a story worth an hour, getting eight seconds. You know the one. Visitors drift past it on the way to the café, and every time they do, a little of the reason you took this job drifts past with them.
What you actually want is not an interactive. It is the family that stays twenty minutes longer. The school group that comes back at the weekend with parents in tow. The child who looks up from the screen at the real thing and asks a question you get to answer. That is the change Notla Learn is for.
It is built for your reality, too. You have met the kiosk that died in year two and the supplier who vanished with it, so every piece here lives at its own link, hosted for you or handed over whole to keep, collecting nothing either way. Nothing is locked in. Nothing to mourn.
This is not for every venue. It is for museums and learning spaces that believe a collection is at its best in someone's hands. If that sounds like yours, you are exactly who this small Swansea team built it for.
Next step
Bring a gallery problem.
Book a twenty minute conversation. It costs nothing, and if an interactive is not the right answer for it, we will tell you so.
- The object, gallery or audience you have in mind, even vaguely.
- The timeline, if one exists. Funded projects welcome.
- The budget, if you know it. It shapes the scope, not the honesty.
Thirty seconds
First time here? Take the fit check before you write. One of the possible answers is "probably not us".
- Telephone
- 01792 680188
- Address
- Notla Learn, 144 Walter Road, Swansea, SA1 5RW
Working across Wales and the rest of the UK, in English and Cymraeg. Proposing for the free annual commission? Read the open call.
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Website terms and conditions.
This website is operated by Notla Ventures Limited, trading as Notla Learn, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 16673455, with its registered office at 144 Walter Road, Swansea, SA1 5RW. By using this website you agree to these terms.
Use of this website
You may browse this website and open the demonstration interactives for your own evaluation. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, distribute or commercially exploit the website or the interactives, in whole or in part, without our prior written consent, and you may not use the website in any way that is unlawful or that damages or interrupts it.
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All content on this website, including the interactives, text, design and imagery, is owned by or licensed to Notla Ventures Limited and is protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights. Nothing on this website grants you any licence beyond viewing and evaluation.
Information, not advice
The content of this website is provided for general information. It is not professional advice of any kind and you should not rely on it as such. That includes the fit check and any other interactive feature on this site, whose results are indicative only and are neither an assessment of, nor a promise to take on, any project. While we try to keep the website accurate and up to date, we make no warranties about its completeness or accuracy.
Commissions and licences
Any commission, adaptation or licence of an interactive is governed by a separate written agreement between us and your organisation. These website terms do not form part of any such agreement.
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Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud, or for any other liability that cannot be excluded by law. Subject to that, we accept no liability for any indirect or consequential loss arising from your use of, or inability to use, this website, and our total liability in connection with the website shall not exceed £100.
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Last updated 22 July 2026
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What we collect
This website has no forms, no accounts, no analytics and no advertising. We collect personal data in only three ways. First, if you email or telephone us, we hold your correspondence and contact details in order to reply and to keep ordinary business records. Second, our hosting provider, Netlify, processes technical information such as IP addresses and browser details in server logs for security and to deliver the site. Third, the typefaces on this site are served by Google Fonts, which means your IP address is processed by Google in order to deliver the font files. The fit check on this site runs entirely in your browser: your answers are not transmitted to us or to anyone else, and they disappear when you leave the page.
Why we process it
We rely on our legitimate interests in responding to enquiries, running a secure website and administering our business. We do not sell personal data or use it for marketing without your consent.
Sharing and transfers
We share personal data only with the service providers named above, who act under their own published terms. Some of them may process data outside the UK; where they do, transfers are covered by appropriate safeguards recognised under UK data protection law.
Interactives we host
Where we host an interactive for a client venue at its own link, the same approach applies. The pieces themselves collect no personal data, and our hosting provider processes technical server logs, as above, in order to deliver them securely.
Retention
We keep correspondence for as long as needed to deal with your enquiry and to meet our legal and accounting obligations, then delete it.
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Under UK data protection law you have rights over your personal data, including:
- access to the data we hold about you;
- correction of inaccurate data;
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To exercise any of these, email contact@notlalearn.com. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
Last updated 22 July 2026
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Last updated 22 July 2026