1. a keeper or custodian of a museum or other collection: "the curator of drawings at the National Gallery"
▪ a person who selects acts to perform at a music festival.
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting an ecclesiastical pastor, also (still a Scots legal term) the guardian of a minor): from Old French curateur or, in later use, directly from Latin curator, from curare (see cure). The current sense dates from the mid 17th century.