My task here will be an attempt to evaluate this dialectic of clearly violent character we see Chatwin stretch between pri­va­te col­lect­or and mu­se­um keeper, along with what lies behind this conflict, in re­la­tion to the accumulation of useless ob­jects, which one must recognise makes up a col­lec­tion and the ideo­lo­gi­es that connect to it.