collocation · neutral
museum curator
UK/mjuːˈzɪəm kjʊˈreɪtə/US/mjuˈziːəm kjuˈreɪtər/mu·SE·um cu·RA·tor
A professional responsible for selecting, organising, and caring for a museum's collection.
Examples
“The museum curator wrote the exhibit labels.”
“Curators must research objects before they go on display.”
“She became the youngest museum curator in the city.”
Band 8 sentence
“The museum curator spent months researching the provenance of each piece before it went on display.”
Collocations
- senior museum curator
- research by curators
- curate an exhibition
Word family
Common mistakes
museum guide→museum curator
museum curators (no -s when needed)→museum curators (with -s)
Say it for a higher band
5curator→6museum guide→7+museum curator
Synonyms
collections manager
Easily confused
museum guide
“The museum guide showed us around and explained each object's history.”
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