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cu·ra·tor  (ky-rtr, kyr-tr)
n.
One who manages or oversees, as the administrative director of a museum collection or a library.

[Middle English curatour, legal guardian, from Old French curateur, from Latin crtor, overseer, from crtus, past participle of crre, to take care of; see curative.]

cura·tori·al (kyr-tôr-l, -tr-) adj.
cu·rator·ship n.

curator [kjʊəˈreɪtə]
n
1. the administrative head of a museum, art gallery, or similar institution
2. (Law) Law chiefly Scots a guardian of a minor, mentally ill person, etc.
[from Latin: one who cares, from cūrāre to care for, from cūra care]
curatorial  [ˌkjʊərəˈtɔːrɪəl] adj
curatorship  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.curatorcurator - the custodian of a collection (as a museum or library)
custodian, keeper, steward - one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals
Translations
curator [kjʊəˈreɪtəʳ] N [of museum] → director(a) m/f; [of museum department] → conservador(a) m/f

curator [kjʊˈreɪtər] n [museum, art gallery] → conservateur/trice d'un musée etc)m/f >

curator
n
(of museum etc)Kustos m
(Jur: = guardian) → Kurator m, → Vormund m

curator [kjʊəˈreɪtəʳ] ndirettore/trice (di museo )
curator [kjʊəˈreɪtəʳ] ndirettore/trice (di museo )

curator
n curator [kjuəˈreitə]
a person in charge of a museum etc. kurator أمين متْحَف уредник kurátor museumsinspektør der Museumsdirektor έφορος μουσείου conservador kuraator سرپرست؛ متصدی intendentti conservateur/-trice אוֹצֵר संग्रहालयाध्यक्ष kustos gondnok, kurátor kurator safnstjóri conservatore, conservatrice 館長 (도서관, 박물관 등의) 관리자, 관장 direktorius, saugotojas (muzeja u.tml.) pārzinis/direktors kurator conservator kurator, konservator, museumsdirektør kustosz curador custode хранитель kurátor kustos kustos intendent หัวหน้าผู้ดูแลพิพิธภัณฑ์ müze müdürü (博物館或圖書館)館長 хранитель, доглядач مهتمم، محافظ người phụ trách bảo tàng


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The curators bring together Jane Alexander, Wim Botha, Steven Cohen, Churchill Madikida, Mustafa Maluka, Thando Mama, Samson Mudzunga, Jay Pather, Johannes Phokela, Robin Rhode, Claudette Schreuders, Berni Searle, Doreen Southwood, Clive van den Berg, Minette Vari, Diane Victor, and Sandile Zulu.
Regardless of how intense and formally dazzling these works are, the curators do not convey any accurate sense of Russian culture prior to Peter the Great's uncompromising campaign of Westernization.
In presenting the collection, the curators decided against a traditional chronological progression, reorganizing the material around nine themes including Periods, Power, From wilderness to city, From gods to God, Secrets of discovery, and Rhineland and the World.
 
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