But there are two other collect achieves as well: The Seat of Knowledge, and (added with a patch 5.2) History of the Mantid. They involve collecting pristine artifacts, and are conceptual follow ons to the achieve It Belongs in a Museum...
A Pristine Artifact - which is Pandaria only - regardless of what it is, is a quest item, and always pops the same quest text:
This artifact has been restored to a remarkably excellent condition. Perhaps you will put it on display at the Seat of Knowledge, so that lorewalkers and archaeologists can study it.
This is awesome! When looking at the archaeology pane, there are all these items, and little descriptions, and you're left wondering, what does that actually look like? Well, with a pristine, you find out, because despite the mild "perhaps" in there, the quest objective is very emphatic and there's no perhaps about it: PUT THE ARTIFACT ON DISPLAY. To complete the quest, you must CLEAR THE CLUTTER AND PUT THE ARTIFACT ON DISPLAY. Seems that they don't want any dithering from people taking the word "perhaps" too literally.
Kuan has yet to get the achieves for all the Pristine items, but he has quite a few of them on display. This screenshot captures the quest, to the right is a Pandaren game board that's on display, and below is Clara teasing me in guild chat about working on Archaeology, which for some unfathomable reason she thinks is more boring than Pet Battles.
Once an item is on display, you get to see what it actually looks like, and also it shows the same text you'd get in a mouseover in the Archaeology profession pane, with an added attribution: donated by the esteemed shaman, Kuanchichi! Here's Kuan (in his PVP gear, btw) looking at Edicts of the Thunder King. To his right is clutter, and right of that is the Twin Stein set.
I love it! the esteemed shaman, Kuanchichi. I love it so much...!
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