curator
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin curator (“‘one who has care of a thing, a manager, guardian, trustee’”) < curare (“‘to take care of’”) < cura (“‘care, heed, attention, anxiety, grief’”).
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curator (plural curators)
- A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection , historically at a museum, library, archive or zoo. The function is now quite detached from institutions and many curators, some of the most famous, tend to be independant , organizing exhibition all over the world, with different partners, as public as private.
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administrator of a collection
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[edit] See also
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- curator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- curator in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
