Foreword / by Jim Vaughn -- Introduction / Trevor Jones, Rainey Tisdale, and Elizabeth Wood -- A manifesto for active history museum collections / Trevor Jones and Rainey Tisdale -- Conceptual frameworks. Ten principles for an anti-racist, anti-orientalist, activist approach to collections / Masum Momaya ; Objects or people? / Rainey Tisdale ; Interlude: Sensory deprivation : a shor play based on a real-life scenario / Elizabeth Wood ; Museum collections and public feelings / Modupe Labode ; Interlude: What happens when audiences "talk" to objects? / Gabriel Taylor ; Hoarding and museum collections : conceptual similarities and differences / Gail Steketee ; The vital museum collection / Elizabeth Wood ; Four forceful phrases : an archival change agent muses on museology / Mark A. Greene ; Interlude: We are collecting empty boxes? / Elizabeth Wood, with Kayla Al Ameri ; Rethinking museum collections in a troubled world / Robert R. Janes ; Interlude: Activate your object : 51 questions to reveal inactivity / Katherine Rieck -- New ideas and tools for change. Tier your collections : a practical tool for making clear decisions in collections management / Trevor Jones ; #Meaning : cataloging active collections / Paul Bourcier ; Interlude: Question the database! / Vickie Stone ; Practical strategies for addressing hoarding in collections / Gail Steketee ; Interlude: Tidying up museum collections / Anne Jordan ; Things in flux : collecting in the constructivist museum / Benjamin Filene ; Interlude: A (practical) inspiration : do you know what it costs you to collect? / Trevor Jones ; Reworking collections management practices for how we must live now : an archival case study / Susan M. Irwin and Linda A. Whitaker ; Object reincarnation : imagining a future outside the permanent collection / Kate Bowell -- Epilogue: Imagine with us / Rainey Tisdale.