Other forms: curators
A curator is the person who chooses and arranges what a museum shows. The exhibition's curator, a curator of prints, ask the curator.
Most of the job is care rather than display — the great majority of any collection is in store, and keeping it safe is the work nobody sees. The word has spread to playlists and shops, which curators of actual collections find irritating. The Latin means one who cares.
1nouncuratorThe person who chooses and arranges what a museum shows.
“The museum's curator chose the paintings for the new exhibition.”
curator is a job.
The care in careful is the same care here. The curator is the one who takes care of what the museum owns, and chooses what it shows.
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Latin curator means a guardian or manager, from curare, to take care of, from cura, care.
Latin
cūrātor — one who has care of a thing, a manager, guardian, trustee
English, today
curator
Built from
From Latin cūrātor (“one who has care of a thing, a manager, guardian, trustee”), from cūrō (“to take care of”), from cūra (“care, heed, attention, anxiety, grief”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA