NEXT STEPS

Read Inside The Head Of A Collector: Neuropsychological Forces At Play by Shirley Mueller (Marquand, £32), which explores the neurological and behavioural economics of collectors, to help them understand their own decision making.

Watch Daniel Krawczyk’s TEDX talk Our Brains are Wired to Collect Things. Neuroscientist and psychologist Krawczyk explains why we collect.

Visit vam.ac.uk, to explore some of the collections at the world famous V&A Museum. Search more than 1.2 million objects, in collections ranging from jewellery and wallpaper to Beatrix Potter and Glastonbury.