How to stop 4.5 month old kitten(s) from climbing dresser?

Hi everyone 

As I'm asking in the tittle:

How do you stop 4.5 month old kitten(s) from climbing a dresser?

My boyfriend has this amazing collection of collectible figures and some are very fragile and expensive. Seems yesterday a kitten climbed the drawers for the first ytime and one of them fell about 4 feet   Good thing it's an articulated and not a statue or the result would have been disasterous!   As a long time collector and new time kitten parent my heart dropped for the figure and kept calm. I still cringe just imagining it falling , but I digress   

The figures are many so moving them is not really an option. I was thinking of draping something over the drawers that when the kittens touch it with their paws they don't like it. Any ideas?

Thank you  

Welcome to having cats, they have no boundaries and you can rarely stop them from doing anything.  Cats like being up, so the top of your dresser is a natural place for them to be.  The fact that there are items up there is minor inconvenience / possible highlight for your cat.  Other than being high, cats LOVE methodically knocking things off of surfaces - it's what they do.  I strongly doubt that covering them with fabric would do anything but temporarily confuse the cats but you can give it a try.  You may be able to try some tricks like putting double faced tape down on the surface of the dresser where the cats jump up, the cat may not like to walk on it, but these are kittens and kittens lack good judgement and may just persist or may make such a fuss when they get up there that they take all of the figures down.  It's a risk.  

I've had a cat in one form or another since I was about 3 years old.  I have found it easier to work around my feline overlords than try to change their normal behavior (in this case wanting to be up high and generally being jerks about tossing things on the floor).  I'd suggest a glass / plexi-glass fronted cabinet of some sort.  It doesn't have to be expensive, but it does need to have doors that are sort of hard for a human to open - not possible for a bored cat to open.  (Yes, I've had a cat that could open cabinets and drawers as well as turn on lights when it served his purpose.)

It the items are as special as you say, it is only a matter of time before one goes down and does not recover.  It may be a pain but I'd strongly suggest packing them into a closet until you have a firm plan or resign yourself to some level of loss.