From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcuratorcu‧ra‧tor /kjʊˈreɪtə $ -ər/ ●○○ noun [countable] BOAsomeone who is in charge of a museum or zoo He’s Curator of Prints at the Metropolitan.
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curator• Carmen Gimenez goes to the Guggenheim, New York, as curator and is not replaced.• Museums are responding by offering family programs, workshops, classes and art talks by curators, scholars and artists.• His curator says that despite his prodigious and inspired output he still thinks of himself as a farmer.• Michael is the mammal curator at the Los Angeles Zoo.• Legally this entitled her to choose her own curators - which in this case meant her regent.• That has ten curators and this museum has one person and she isn't properly funded.Origin curator (1600-1700) Latin curare; → CURE2 