museum curators
Exhibit selection experts
Museum curators are professionals responsible for acquiring, preserving, researching, and presenting collections in museums.
They select which objects or artworks to display, organize exhibitions, and provide scholarly expertise about the items in their care.
A curator might specialize in a particular field—ancient pottery, contemporary photography, natural history specimens—and often writes catalog essays or gives public lectures.
The museum curator spent months preparing the new wing's permanent collection.
- provenanceRecord of ownership
- loan agreementDocument governing borrowed funds
- restorationReturning something to condition
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- docentTrained museum tour leader
cataloging · archaeology · iconography · repatriation · historiography · artifact · exhibitions · ethnography · grant writing · inventory · primary sources · lecture series · opening reception · community engagement · collections · archivists · masterpieces · installation
- shell collectors
- academicsprofessor, course, university professors, math, professors
- science museumsscience exhibits, exhibits, interactive displays, displays, demonstrations
- archaeologistsHoward Carter, Mary Leakey
- historianshistorian, historians, chronicler, chroniclers, annalist
- Paleontologistspaleontologist, Jack Horner, paleobiologists, paleobotanists, paleoanthropologists
museum curatorsartists
Makers of creative works
creators · sculptors · painters · contemporary artists · makers
museum curatorstour guides
People leading sightseers
museum visitors · street artists · outsider artists · security guards