curator

What it means

1. A person who manages, administers or organizes a collection, either independently or employed by a museum, library, archive or zoo.

   Renowned curator Jacques Saunière staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's Grand Gallery.

   2003, Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 3

   1 more example

   The Club became like town meetings for the entire New York art scene, attracting dealers, collectors, uptown curators like Alfred Barr, critics, and just about any other culturati who could wrangle their way in.

   1975, Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word

2. One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee.
3. A member of a curatorium, a board for electing university professors, etc.

In a sentence

The Club became like town meetings for the entire New York art scene, attracting dealers, collectors, uptown curators like Alfred Barr, critics, and just about any other culturati who could wrangle their way in.

1975, Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word

Where it comes from

1. Latincūrātor“one who has care of a thing, a manager, guardian, trustee”
2. Englishcurator

From Latin cūrātor (“one who has care of a thing, a manager, guardian, trustee”), from cūrāre (“to take care of”), from cūra (“care, heed, attention, anxiety, grief”).