collection of collection links

Here is a small collection of links about collections

Designers/artists

Mark Dion http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/dion/index.html

Bernd and Hilla Becher's Typologies  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd_and_Hilla_Becher

Ed Ruscha's Twenty Six Gas Stations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twentysix_Gasoline_Stations

and Every Building on Sunset Strip http://www.manhattanrarebooks-art.com/ruscha.htm

For now check into these sites and these artists and read the entire essay, Unpacking My Library  by Walter Benjamin, from which this is an extract. 

http://www.idehist.uu.se/distans/ilmh/Ren/benj-bookcoll.htm

Museums are the epitome of collections. Take a look at a couple to being with

The Sir John Soane Museum http://www.britishtours.com/360/soane-museum.html

The Pitt Rivers Museum http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/