Curator

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🚀 Administration

Curators provide essential support in museums, libraries, zoos and private organizations with collections of artifacts or documents, ensuring the safety and viability of those collections. Curators act as both experts on the collection and guardians of the items, coordinating exhibits, artifact care and security with other employees and outside service providers. The work Curators do also helps ensure that the information related to collected items can be made accessible to others.

What does a Curator do?

A Curator, also called a Director, Administrator or Conservator in some organizations, works to collect and maintain items in a museum, library or private research collection. Curators may conduct research, oversee the maintenance of artifacts or documents and provide education to others about a collection.

Responsibilities

A Curator should be able to fulfill various duties and responsibilities. The following are some duties and responsibilities a Curator should be able to execute:

Conducting research on collections, artifacts and items, working to authenticate and identify pieces
Working on behalf of the museum or alongside others to procure items through purchase, loans or bequests for collections
Collaboration with museum teams to plan exhibits to interpret collected items
Provide educational tours or create media to help educate the public and others about items in the collection

Required Skills

A competitive Curator will have certain skills and qualifications, including:

Knowledge of the collection items
Leadership skills to assist with leading staff in creating exhibits, maintaining artifacts and interacting with the public.
Communication and educational skills
Attention to detail

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