diff --git a/lib/OpenLayers/Format/GeoJSON.js b/lib/OpenLayers/Format/GeoJSON.js
index d70b9fa2c4..5a0bd39575 100644
--- a/lib/OpenLayers/Format/GeoJSON.js
+++ b/lib/OpenLayers/Format/GeoJSON.js
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ OpenLayers.Format.GeoJSON = OpenLayers.Class(OpenLayers.Format.JSON, {
         if (obj == null) {
             return null;
         }
-        var geometry;
+        var geometry, collection = false;
         if(obj.type == "GeometryCollection") {
             if(!(obj.geometries instanceof Array)) {
                 throw "GeometryCollection must have geometries array: " + obj;
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ OpenLayers.Format.GeoJSON = OpenLayers.Class(OpenLayers.Format.JSON, {
                 );
             }
             geometry = new OpenLayers.Geometry.Collection(components);
+            collection = true;
         } else {
             if(!(obj.coordinates instanceof Array)) {
                 throw "Geometry must have coordinates array: " + obj;
@@ -241,7 +242,9 @@ OpenLayers.Format.GeoJSON = OpenLayers.Class(OpenLayers.Format.JSON, {
                 throw err;
             }
         }
-        if (this.internalProjection && this.externalProjection) {
+        // We don't reproject collections because the children are reprojected
+        // for us when they are created.
+        if (this.internalProjection && this.externalProjection && !collection) {
             geometry.transform(this.externalProjection, 
                                this.internalProjection); 
         }                       
diff --git a/tests/manual/geojson-geomcoll-reprojection.html b/tests/manual/geojson-geomcoll-reprojection.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e82e08a330
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/manual/geojson-geomcoll-reprojection.html
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
+    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+    <head>
+        <style type="text/css" media="screen">
+            #map { height: 500px; }
+        </style>
+        <script src="../../lib/OpenLayers.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
+        <script src="http://www.openstreetmap.org/openlayers/OpenStreetMap.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"></script>
+        <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
+            function init(){
+                var map = new OpenLayers.Map ("map", {
+                    controls: [
+                        new OpenLayers.Control.Navigation(),
+                        new OpenLayers.Control.Attribution()
+                    ],
+                    maxExtent: new OpenLayers.Bounds(-20037508.34,-20037508.34,20037508.34,20037508.34),
+                    maxResolution: 156543.0399,
+                    numZoomLevels: 19,
+                    units: 'm',
+                    projection: new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:900913"),
+                    displayProjection: new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:4326")
+                });
+                
+                var osm = new OpenLayers.Layer.OSM.Mapnik('OSM');
+                map.addLayer(osm);
+                var lonLat = new OpenLayers.LonLat(5, 40).transform(new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:4326"), map.getProjectionObject());
+                map.setCenter (lonLat, 5);
+                
+                var featurecollection = {
+                    "type": "FeatureCollection", 
+                    "features": [{
+                        "geometry": {
+                            "type": "GeometryCollection", 
+                            "geometries": [
+                                {
+                                    "type": "LineString", 
+                                    "coordinates": 
+                                        [[11.0878902207, 45.1602390564], 
+                                        [15.01953125, 48.1298828125]]
+                                },
+                                {
+                                    "type": "Polygon", 
+                                    "coordinates": 
+                                        [[[11.0878902207, 45.1602390564], 
+                                          [14.931640625, 40.9228515625], 
+                                          [0.8251953125, 41.0986328125], 
+                                          [7.63671875, 48.96484375], 
+                                          [11.0878902207, 45.1602390564]]]
+                                },
+                                {
+                                    "type":"Point", 
+                                    "coordinates":[15.87646484375, 44.1748046875]                                    
+                                }
+                            ]
+                        }, 
+                        "type": "Feature", 
+                        "properties": {}    
+                    }]
+                };
+                var geojson_format = new OpenLayers.Format.GeoJSON({
+                    'internalProjection': new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:900913"),
+                    'externalProjection': new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:4326")
+                });
+                var vector_layer = new OpenLayers.Layer.Vector(); 
+                map.addLayer(vector_layer);
+                vector_layer.addFeatures(geojson_format.read(featurecollection));
+            };
+        </script>
+    </head>
+    <body onload="init()">
+        <div id="map"></div>
+    </body>
+</html>
