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Read - being a museum curator
Listen - curators and collections
museum curating
by Richard Sidaway

What is a museum curator?  Is it someone who spends all day in the dusty cellars of our museums, studying and organising ancient collections?  Or maybe today the curator sits at their computer all day and compares collections around the world.

In this article you will find out about:

  • museum curating in the UK:  what the job involves and how collections are developing today
  • language learning skills:  you will practise the skill of prediction in reading and listening
  • language:  some current idiomatic expressions
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