How to use this book Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Objects, collections and collecting 1 Learning with things: an introduction to Object-based learning 2 Collecting, collections and collectors 3 Objects, collections, and the colonial legacy Part II: Understanding and analysing objects and materials 4 Materials and material culture 5 Making, growing and the operational sequence 6 Object biographies and the social life of things 7 Objects, emotions and wellbeing: the psychosocial dimension of material culture Part III: Exhibiting and communicating with objects 8 Considering audiences: communicating through/with exhibitions 9 Digital technology in researching and exhibiting objects 10 Exhibition ethics Conclusions: Learning with things, teaching with things and the future of object-based learning.