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Curator (museum-related environment)   (French Equivalent: Conservateur)

DefinitionMuseums and galleries typically employ numbers of curators who are concerned with staging temporary loan exhibitions, arranging displays of the museum's own collection and making acquisitions for that collection. In the past twenty years the role of the curator has evolved: now there are freelance or independent curators who are not attached to an institution and who have their own idiosyncratic ways of making exhibitions. Such curators are invited to curate, or themselves propose, exhibitions in a wide range of spaces, both within and outside the established gallery system, and online.

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Broader Term ↑Occupation
Related Terms ↔Curation (museum-related environment)
Mediation
Exhibition