diff --git a/modules/facade/src/collection.dart b/modules/facade/src/collection.dart
index f0e6d1af0a..0f9b824bde 100644
--- a/modules/facade/src/collection.dart
+++ b/modules/facade/src/collection.dart
@@ -14,6 +14,17 @@ class MapWrapper {
   static int size(m) {return m.length;}
 }
 
+// TODO: how to export StringMap=Map as a type?
+class StringMapWrapper {
+  static HashMap create() => new HashMap();
+  static get(map, key) {
+    return map[key];
+  }
+  static set(map, key, value) {
+    map[key] = value;
+  }
+}
+
 class ListWrapper {
   static List clone(List l) => new List.from(l);
   static List create() => new List();
diff --git a/modules/facade/src/collection.es6 b/modules/facade/src/collection.es6
index a3e00df39a..00b1964552 100644
--- a/modules/facade/src/collection.es6
+++ b/modules/facade/src/collection.es6
@@ -13,6 +13,19 @@ export class MapWrapper {
   static size(m) {return m.size;}
 }
 
+// TODO: cannot export StringMap as a type as Dart does not support
+// renaming types...
+export class StringMapWrapper {
+  // Note: We are not using Object.create(null) here due to
+  // performance!
+  static create():Object { return { }; }
+  static get(map, key) {
+    return map.hasOwnProperty(key) ? map[key] : undefined;
+  }
+  static set(map, key, value) {
+    map[key] = value;
+  }
+}
 
 export class ListWrapper {
   static create():List { return new List(); }