The Think Potato Institute maintains a collection of approximately 6,000 physical potato-related objects, including artworks, books, photographs, advertisements, toys, tools, educational materials, food packaging, ephemera, and other forms of potato-related culture.
In addition to its physical holdings, TPI maintains an extensive archive of digital materials documenting what Jeffrey Allen Price has termed POTATOPHENA—a growing record of potato-related references, jokes, idioms, stories, screenshots, notes, recordings, and other cultural traces collected from everyday life. Together, these physical and digital archives comprise many thousands of additional research materials documenting the potato’s presence throughout culture and collective imagination.
The archive continues to grow through collecting, research, documentation, fieldwork, donations, and ongoing contributions to the emerging fields of POTATOISM and Potato Humanities.