Introduction -- The pit-rivers museum, oxford / James Fenton -- Museums -- Collections -- Collections for research -- Collection for ongoing learning -- Flea market / Jon Fuller -- Collectons, memory, and identity -- Collections and creastivity -- Beowulf: the treasure and the dragon / Howard D. Chickery Jr. -- Collections for enjoyment -- Collections for enjoyment -- Collections and digitization -- Collections and values -- Poetry / Saadi Youssef -- Piecing together the fragments