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curator

[kyoo-ray-ter, kyoor-ay-, kyoor-uh-ter] / kjʊˈreɪ tər, ˈkjʊər eɪ-, ˈkjʊər ə tər /
NOUN
caretaker of collection
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"Many teeth from Saurichthys were once mistaken for those of an amphibian, and that misunderstanding continued well into the 20th Century," said Museum Wales curator Cindy Howells.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

The flowers she held up were another sign of luxury, according to Deb Metsger, the Royal Ontario Museum’s assistant curator of plants.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

He was brought on board about eight months after MOCA’s previous director Philippe Vergne fired the museum’s chief curator Helen Molesworth, only to leave a few months later.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Samantha Eden, assistant curator, said the zoo started with six snails and recently started a new colony.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

This request, too, the lawyers refused, much to the regret of Milton Greeman, curator of Wistar’s renowned collection of medical specimens.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Above all, though, the commission’s recommendations faced resistance among the museum’s curators to the sort of great-man-of-history approach that Brooks and others were hankering for.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

There seems to be a tension that curators feel in giving audiences what they are looking for while also presenting real history.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Williams College Museum of Art curators did not respond to requests for comment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Following the recent success of the new Christopher Nolan film based on the epic poem, curators said they hoped there would be renewed interest in artists' interpretations of Homer's work.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Critics, scholars, and curators are not our adversaries.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson




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