Panelists will present their own digital platforms and open source projects to show how digital resources can be used by science centres and museums to reach across cultural and institutional borders and build connections with onsite and online visitors. How are active user communities built? What can we do to enhance their professional collaboration and encourage user interaction? Speakers will present different online resources to examine how well they facilitate collaboration and sharing, drawing on their extensive experience in online education and science repositories. The Museo della Scienza “Leonardo da Vinci” and the Deutsches Museum will be featured as examples of remote collaboration on educational pathways merging complementary resources from universcience,.