Curator

Definitions

1. A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.
2. One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee.
3. A member of a curatorium, a board for electing university professors, etc.
4. A person or entity who controls, manages, or oversees another.
5. A groundsman who looks after a cricket field.

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Examples

“The Club became like⟳ town meetings for the entire New York art scene, attracting dealers, collectors, uptown curators like⟳ Alfred Barr, critics, and just about any other culturati who could wrangle their way in.”

“Renowned curator Jacques Saunière staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's Grand Gallery.”

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