A Career as a Museum Curator
The High Museum of Art’s 28 acquisition four major French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works was described by the museum’s curator of European Art in the Atlanta Business Journal as “one of the most important in the South East.”A museum’s reputation and popularity often rises and falls on its acquisitions.Especially in the case of smaller collections, the acquisition of new works and the preservation of a strong collection are necessary to draw in an audience.Acquisition, along with a laundry list of other duties, is usually the responsibility of the museum curator.
Curators work for museums, archives, galleries, government agencies, corporations, colleges, and even zoos.Curators are responsible for the arrangement, cataloguing, storage, and exhibitions of collections. The curator facilitates the sale and loan of pieces from a collection.Authenticating art to protect their collection from fraudulent acquisitions is a responsibility of curators as well.
Research and education are also a part of the curator’s job description.Curators often have various research projects and create educational programs for the community.Through tours, lectures, classes, and press releases, they work with the community in order to educate others on the value and significance of works of art.
Increasingly fundraising and marketing have become a part of the curator’s skill set.Many curators are responsible for promoting their collection through press releases and other publicity materials.Knowledge of grant writing and contributions to academic journals are common among curators.
Getting Started Earning a Degree
Most museums require curators to have a master’s degree in art, archeology, or a similar field.Many museums require a doctoral degree.Increasingly degrees in museum studies and Arts Administration have become more common.Such programs focus on professional coursework such as curatorial practice.
Academic degree programs such as art history or archeology may not prepare students fully for the management and development arenas of a curator’s responsibilities.It is recommended that prospective curators take courses or dual major in another field such as business, development, public relations, communications, and marketing.
Colleges and Universities
Art History and Fine Arts programs are available at most colleges and universities.Many online colleges allow students to earn a degree while gaining valuable work experience at a museum or art gallery.Online degrees in Art History or Fine Arts can be earned at the Academy of Arts University, American Intercontinental University,
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, and Westwood College Online.
The Museum official can be the Curator.
Minimum wage (or possibly less) in the exciting and fast-paced world of food service.There are essentially no jobs for art historians other than teaching art history. That is, there are lots of jobs art historians can do, but their training doesn't necessarily make them much better than any other liberal arts major at it. Possibly a museum curator, but unless you're related to someone on the board of directors of the museum, that's probably notgoing to be an entry-level job.
Example: Everyone met at the front gate of the museum. Everyone met at the museum's front gate.The possessive noun of museum is: museum's
Permanent exhibits in a museum are usually owned by the museum and are often or always on display. A temporary exhibit is usually owned by someone else, or another museum, and is loan to the museum where it is being exhibited for a finite period of time.
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A curator works in a museum
The curator at the museum showed us the fossils.She wanted to be the curator of the art museum.
The person in charge of a museum is a curator.
The assistant curator is on the top floor. The actual curator is on Early Poptropica Island in the pop art museum.
He/she is the person in charge of the museum
The museum will be needing a new curator after tonight. Where's that curator when I need him most?
The curator is the owner of the museum on counterfeit island. You will receive a package with a message. You will find her in the museum in Early Poptropica.=-)
The curator on Early Poptropica is in the Pop Art Museum.
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The Museum official can be the Curator.
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