Museum Curators have many responsibilities such as finding and buying art, cataloguing the art, assembling a comprehensive exhibit, and overseeing the management of the exhibit. A curator must organize collections of art, often to create specialist exhibits. Not only must a curator organize these exhibitions, they must research and find these pieces, keep records and write about each of the pieces, and ensure the collections are preserved correctly. Curators are usually hired by national, local, and independent museums. In order to become a curator you need at least a good undergraduate degree, however the job can be very competitive so many aspiring curators also get a graduate degree. People can technically become a museum curator with any degree, but the degrees that are most helpful include anthropology, art history, exhibition management, history, art, archaeology, or arts administration. Some colleges in Virginia that offer good preparatory degrees are George Mason University (Art History and Arts Management), Sweet Briar College (Arts Management), and Virginia Commonwealth University (Art History). Some of the colleges highly regarded for their Museum studies programs are Harvard University, John Hopkins University, and Northwestern University.
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