diff --git a/lnschema_core/migrations/0065_remove_collection_feature_sets_and_more.py b/lnschema_core/migrations/0065_remove_collection_feature_sets_and_more.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..30a4dbba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lnschema_core/migrations/0065_remove_collection_feature_sets_and_more.py
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Generated by Django 5.2 on 2024-09-08 11:37
+
+from django.db import migrations
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+    dependencies = [
+        (
+            "lnschema_core",
+            "0064_alter_artifact_version_alter_collection_version_and_more",
+        ),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.RemoveField(
+            model_name="collection",
+            name="feature_sets",
+        ),
+        migrations.DeleteModel(
+            name="CollectionFeatureSet",
+        ),
+    ]
diff --git a/lnschema_core/models.py b/lnschema_core/models.py
index bb26d8bb..0b3f7244 100644
--- a/lnschema_core/models.py
+++ b/lnschema_core/models.py
@@ -772,18 +772,6 @@ class ParamManager:
     pass
 
 
-class FeatureManagerArtifact(FeatureManager):
-    """Feature manager."""
-
-    pass
-
-
-class FeatureManagerCollection(FeatureManager):
-    """Feature manager."""
-
-    pass
-
-
 class ParamManagerArtifact(ParamManager):
     """Param manager."""
 
@@ -1848,7 +1836,7 @@ class Meta(Record.Meta, IsVersioned.Meta, TracksRun.Meta, TracksUpdates.Meta):
         })
     """
 
-    features: FeatureManager = FeatureManagerArtifact  # type: ignore
+    features: FeatureManager = FeatureManager  # type: ignore
     """Feature manager.
 
     Features denote dataset dimensions, i.e., the variables that measure labels & numbers.
@@ -2402,7 +2390,6 @@ class Meta(Record.Meta, IsVersioned.Meta, TracksRun.Meta, TracksUpdates.Meta):
 
     _len_full_uid: int = 20
     _len_stem_uid: int = 16
-    features = FeatureManagerCollection  # type: ignore
     _name_field: str = "name"
 
     id: int = models.AutoField(primary_key=True)
@@ -2426,10 +2413,6 @@ class Meta(Record.Meta, IsVersioned.Meta, TracksRun.Meta, TracksUpdates.Meta):
         max_length=25, db_index=True, null=True, default=None
     )
     """Type of reference, e.g., cellxgene Census collection_id."""
-    feature_sets: FeatureSet = models.ManyToManyField(
-        "FeatureSet", related_name="collections", through="CollectionFeatureSet"
-    )
-    """The feature sets measured in this collection (see :class:`~lamindb.FeatureSet`)."""
     ulabels: ULabel = models.ManyToManyField(
         "ULabel", through="CollectionULabel", related_name="collections"
     )
@@ -2687,24 +2670,6 @@ class Meta:
         unique_together = ("artifact", "featureset")
 
 
-class CollectionFeatureSet(Record, LinkORM, TracksRun):
-    id: int = models.BigAutoField(primary_key=True)
-    collection = models.ForeignKey(
-        Collection, CASCADE, related_name="links_feature_set"
-    )
-    # we follow the lower() case convention rather than snake case for link models
-    featureset: FeatureSet = models.ForeignKey(
-        FeatureSet, PROTECT, related_name="links_collection"
-    )
-    slot: str = CharField(max_length=50, null=True, default=None)
-    feature_ref_is_semantic: bool = models.BooleanField(
-        null=True, default=None
-    )  # like Feature name or Gene symbol or CellMarker name
-
-    class Meta:
-        unique_together = ("collection", "featureset")
-
-
 class CollectionArtifact(Record, LinkORM, TracksRun):
     id: int = models.BigAutoField(primary_key=True)
     collection: Collection = models.ForeignKey(