Synonyms of curators

curators

noun

plural of curator

as in guardians

a person who is in charge of the things in a museum, zoo, etc.

a curator seeking an addition to the collection

Related Words

• guardians
• janitors
• custodians
• keepers
• caretakers
• stewards
• wardens
• cocurators
• watchmen
• sextons

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of curators

Shanghai, China — One of China’s most exciting art curators, X Zhu-Nowell, is giving me a very Shanghai morning. — Stephy Chung, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026

Each year, the council chooses works to acquire based on recommendations from the museum’s curators. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 16 Oct. 2026

This archival room can be used by Dior designers, exhibition curators, researchers, historians and Kurkdjian. — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2026

Separately, Halpern said artists had been selected to create 16 official posters — eight Olympic and eight Paralympic — through a process involving nominations from regional curators. — Jane Horowitz, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

The curators, David Breslin and Brinda Kumar, don’t accomplish this with appeals to timeliness or relevance but with a mighty selection of pieces—more than a hundred and twenty, from eighty-two different institutions—and smart exhibition design. — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2026

The London edition of Frieze, a longstanding highlight on the global art calendar that draws an annual pilgrimage of high-net-worth collectors, advisors, dealers, curators, institutional directors and amateurs to the British capital. — Mahoro Seward, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2026

O’Hara is most famous for his collection Lunch Poems, written in his lunch break as a receptionist from the Museum of Modern Art—proving even future curators/art critics must begin at the front desk. — Literary Hub, 13 Oct. 2026

The curators have put Convergence on a freestanding wall near windows, with daylight shining through — evoking the energy of a contemporary gallery. — Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR, 10 Oct. 2026