Published Apr 30, 2026, 12:01 PM EDT We went deep into the details of chopping Michonne's sword and Negan's bat for the next Mini Museum project The Walking Dead’s legacy is getting sliced into 160,000 pieces — literally Image: AMC The Kickstarter for The Walking Dead Mini Museum Handheld Collection goes live on May 5, and the full list of 32 micro-artifacts from the show included in each 4-by-5-inch “museum” won’t be publicly revealed until then. The initial announcement revealed three pieces that will be featured: One of Michonne’s katanas, a pair of Rick’s cowboy boots, and Negan’s barbed-wire-wrapped bat “Lucille.” This particular Mini Museum collection will be a limited-edition project, with only 5,000 made. Reading the announcement, Polygon had a lot of questions: How does the Mini Museum team break a bat or katana down into 5,000 5 mm squares? What’s the process for neatly lining up 32 teeny fragments of props inside an acrylic square?…