This is a properly radical way of opening up a collection to online interaction and is well worth a read.
Holding Hands with the “Fediverse” – ActivityPub at SFO Museum
SFO Museum has joined the “Fediverse”. We have begun to operate a series of automated “bot” accounts that are published using the ActivityPub protocols and that can be subscribed to from any client, like Mastodon, that supports those standards. These…
Seems like this guy has been wanting to do this for a while and has been blocked by a lack of imagination and apathy
But now the technology has caught up, and this museum is creating an ActivityPub account for EVERY OBJECT in their collection.