The aim of this article is to present research carried out using digital objects, more specifically digital collections, seeking to conceptualize how open science is understood in the context of research on the museum collections of an important institution, such as the Museu do Índio. Using special features of the Tainacan tool used by the Museu do Índio to make available its collection, in order to collect data that has great representativity in what concerns a museum collection, from the collected information it was possible to represent the data using related methods to the Social Networks Analysis (SNA), which allows a visual analysis of the information obtained and a good representation of the perceived correlations between the different aspects of the collection.