Coming up with my ideas of final pieces/structures hasn't worked in my favour as now I am constantly racking my brain to come up with a 'collection' or an idea based around the word 'collection'. So I have looked into the Idea of collections and collectors to try and help myself. From everything I have looked at I feel that Collections can be anything, from collecting a brand of shoe, pottery or bag, to collecting random objects or even collecting rubbish you find!From understanding this I have now begun to brain storm my ideas of collections and possible projects...collection |kəˈlek sh ən|noun1 the action or process of collecting someone or something : the collection of maple sap | tax collection• a regular removal of mail for dispatch or of trash for disposal.• an instance of collecting money in a church service or for a charitable cause : when she died, they took up a collection for her burial.• a sum collected in this way.2 a group of things or people : a rambling collection of houses.• an assembly of items such as works of art, pieces of writing, or natural objects, esp. one systematically ordered : paintings from the permanent collection | a record collection.• ( collections) an art museum's holdings organized by medium, such as sculpture, painting, or photography.• a book or recording containing various texts, poems, songs, etc. : a collection of essays.• a range of new clothes produced by a fashion house : a preview of their autumn collection.ORIGIN late Middle English : via Old French from Latin collectio(n-), from colligere‘gather together’ (see collect 1 ).

Ways the word 'Collection' is used...

Collection

For works entitled The Collection, see The Collection.

Collection or Collections may refer to:

Collection (horse), a term referring to the horse carrying more weight on hishindquarters than his forehand.
Collection (museum), objects in a particular field forms the core basis for the museum
Collection (Oxford Colleges), a beginning-of-term exam or Principal's Collections
Collection (computing), the abstract concept of collections in computer science

I began to think about Famous 'Collections', weird 'Collections' and Famous 'Collectors'.

FAMOUS COLLECTORS.

Henry Wellcome:

Fascinated by the “art and science of healing throughout the ages”, Henry Wellcome collected books and objects on a colossal scale: by the time of his death, his collection of around 1.5 million items dwarfed those of Europe’s most famous museums.

First exhibition

By 1911, Wellcome decided to hold his first exhibition for an external audience, to coincide with the 17th International Congress of Medicine in London in 1913, and his staff could finally make a start at classifying the objects for the exhibition.

On 24 June 1913, the first temporary public exhibition of select objects from Wellcome's collection opened in 54a Wigmore Street, in the heart of the West End of London, next door to the main Burroughs Wellcome & Co. showroom.

Another famous 'Collector'...

Cyril Harmer:

Newfoundland airmails. He assembled in what was without doubt, the finest collection of the Airmails of Newfoundland. The collection was sold, on February 26, 2002, by Harmers in West London for a total of £803,000!

FAMOUS COLLECTIONS.

Amongst the most famous of known collections, most popular seemed to be, Poetry collections, coin collections, and artworks.

These seemed to be collections of things we have all heard of, they include collections of Andy Warhols' work, famous peoples property auctioned and museum collections. They seemed to be stuff we would hear about that sells for a lot at Auction!

WEIRD COLLECTIONS.

MR Potato Head Collection and Game Memorobelia