Developed at the New Museum’s cultural incubator, Collecteurs began as an experiment to give the public access to private collections. Today, it is a museum without walls and a network without noise—a place where artworks, ideas, and knowledge aren’t just shared, but accessioned, archived, and amplified.

We are an evolving cultural institution that selects, preserves, and presents work that matters. Our curators are always on the hunt for artists, collectors, and visionaries shaping the discourse—accessioning them into The Museum of Private Collections and elevating their contributions.

In The Museum of Private Collections, private art becomes public and artists share their works before they even enter collections.

• Forget following. Join Circles.

• Forget DMs. Have real conversations through Calls.

• Forget fleeting content. Be Accessioned.

Social media has extracted from artists, thinkers, and cultural workers for too long. Collecteurs builds an economy that funds creativity instead of exploiting it.

Through Patron Circles, Calls, and 5% Forward, cultural workers can generate income directly from their communities, sustaining their practices without relying on traditional institutions.

Every transaction fuels the ecosystem. No ads. No data mining. Just an infrastructure designed to support cultural production, ensuring that what we create together lasts.

The age of infinite scrolling and disposable content is over. Collecteurs is a Slow Social Network—designed for depth, not distraction.

• Posts don’t disappear—they endure. Art, writing, and thought deserve more than a moment.

• Your work isn’t buried—it’s preserved. Visibility is based on cultural relevance, not algorithmic bias.

As AI scrapes the internet, extracting creative labor without consent, artists and writers are left unprotected. Collecteurs calls upon cultural producers to unite and build collective defenses against unauthorized AI use.

We are working towards real solutions, including partnerships with digital rights advocates and technology that detects and removes unauthorized AI scraping of creative works. The more cultural labor that exists under the Collecteurs roof, the stronger we are in protecting it.