curator
/kjʊəˈɹeɪtɚ/ noun C2- A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.
- One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee.
- A member of a curatorium, a board for electing university professors, etc.
- A person or entity who controls, manages, or oversees another.
- A groundsman who looks after a cricket field.
Plural curators
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The woman, it turned out, had spent her working life as a curator at the city's history museum, and had kept the card for more than sixty years because, as she put it, it was the first time a stranger had seen her clearly.
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