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A Visit with a Museum Curator

Focus Who is Ellen Keiter? What does she do in the Eric Carle Museum?

e.g. She is a museum curator. She acquires art and makes

displays to exhibit that art.

n. a person whose job is to choose and organize objects or works of art in a museum or gallery
curator
Every museum has a curator, a person ▲ Ellen Keiter

n. a public showing of art, crafts, or products
acquires
who purchases or acquires objects for a museum.

exhibits
Curators are responsible for creating exhibits and

v.
to get something by buying or being given it
organizing events to attract visitors to their

museums. Ellen Keiter is the curator at the Eric Carle

Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts. In the following

interview, Ellen discusses working at the museum.

Unit 6 | A Visit with a Museum Curator