Newton Day Ltd
Providers of "Build Any" platform for the museums: boost visitors numbers by making artefacts interactive
Services offered
- Audience development
- Audio and audiovisual production
- Collections management systems
- Digital imaging
- Interactive exhibit production
- Organisational development
Address
3rd Floor
86-90 Paul Street
3rd Floor
London
England
EC2A 4NE
United Kingdom
Contact
- Ian Tomlin, CEO
- Office - 07764 220954
- ian@newtonday.uk
Information
Museums are under pressure to do three things at once: provide rigorous scholarly context, preserve the visual integrity of the gallery space, and make collections accessible to a broad and diverse audience.
Traditional museum labels can only say so much. Mobile apps often go unused (around 70% prefer a simple browser experience). PDFs uploaded to a website rarely invite deeper exploration.
Build Any offers a practical middle ground. It creates a digital layer that complements the physical exhibition that's structured like a book for intuitive navigation, but powered like a searchable knowledge resource. Curators can add extended research, conservation notes, archival media, oral histories, and multilingual interpretation without crowding the gallery. Visitors can explore deeper context, ask questions, and test their understanding, while educators
can reuse the same resource for learning materials and outreach. Rather than replacing the physical experience, this approach enhances it. Collections remain protected and visually uncluttered, while the surrounding scholarship, stories, and supporting assets become accessible in a way that feels coherent and thoughtfully designed.
The result is a connected “phygital ˮ experience that extends engagement beyond the gallery—supporting accessibility, education, and long-term audience development without adding operational complexity.
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