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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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"It's been this open debate for a century," said Neill Wallis, curator of Florida archaeology, bioarchaeology and the Ceramic Technology Laboratory at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

"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

Levine was less than a week into his new job as the museum’s assistant curator of European art when it acquired Portrait of a Lady from Sotheby’s for $68,750, more than tripling its asking price.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

“Rolywholyover” traveled to the Guggenheim in New York’s SoHo district the next year, and the young curator in charge was Michael Govan, LACMA’s visionary head behind the Zumthor galleries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The curator of the dinosaur wing had seen him wandering up the stairs to the second floor.

From "A Tangle of Knots" by Lisa Graff

Lacking the necessary technology and expertise to answer that question, museum curators stored the mysterious fragments while competing explanations remained unresolved.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

According to the show's curators, elements of Flaxman's sketches can be seen in Turner's painting called Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus – Homer's Odyssey, including outlines of horses in the sunset and the shadow of a cyclops.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

The curators attribute this sea-change in tastes to a reaction against impersonal mechanization caused by industrialization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Those were the assumptions made by the Parisian curators, at least, and they were all wrong.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day




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