New Issue: Collections

Collections- Volume: 21, Number: 4 (December 2025)
(partial open access)

Notes from the Field

Introduction to the Focus Issue “Re-Collections 2025”: Reflections on Collections
Juilee Decker

Affective Collecting: Ethics, Emotions, and Collecting the Holocaust
Victoria Van Orden Martínez

Blackness for Sale: Collections, Auction Block, and (Anti)racist (Counter)framing in Cyber Marketplace
Paul Akpomuje

Making Deafness Visible: Preserving Deaf History in the Deaf Catholic Archives
Lisa M. Villa and R. A. R. Edwards

Rethinking Digital Collections: A Personal Reflection
Martha A. Anderson

Historic Buildings as Living Collections: Cities as Museums of Cultural Narratives
Sanaeya Vandrewala

Library and Archives Conservation: A Re-Collection Retrospection (2005–2025)
Whitney Baker

“Re-Collections” on Conservation
Dee Stubbs-Lee

Preventive Conservation’s Evolution: A Brief Reflection
Mary Coughlin

A Historical Perspective on Collecting and Sorting Methods: Key Issues in the Development of a Small Local Museum’s Policy
Efrat Haberman and Assaf Selzer

Reimagining the World Wildlife Gallery, Kendal Museum: A Community Engagement and Reinterpretation Project
Joseph Rigby, Lavinia Haslam, Ila Colley and Peter Lincoln

Curating the Invisible, the Mundane, the Intimate: On VHS Home Movie Collections
Ursula-Helen Kassaveti

Finding Lived Experiences in Historic Zooarchaeological Museum Collections: A Brief Case Study from Jamestown, Virginia
Magen Grayce Hodapp

From Shells to 3D Printed Art Models: Digitizing David Brown’s Collection of Medically-Important Snails
Adam P. Cieplinski, Jonathan D. Ablett and Aidan M. Emery

The Sanguinetti House Museum and Gardens: Past, Present, and Future of Their Collection
Isabel Allen

Lost Afterlife: Collections and Preservation at Pioneer Cemetery
Alexandra Zoellner

A Journey Through the Past, Present, and Future of Natural History Museum Treasures
Consuelo Sendino

Twenty Years of a World Culture Museum: Between Wonder, Discomfort, and Repair
Adriana Muñoz

Training for the Curatorial Endeavor
Nancy Bryk

Collecting from the Future: Embedding Strategic Foresight in Museum Collections Development
Sandro Debono

Announcement
Introduction of New Editor
Juilee Decker