Museum Curator Quotes

My true love is history, but I didn't know how I could make a living at it.

Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado.

[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table.

I think about that all of the time and I have this fantasy that I am going to work at a museum someday! I would love to do something like that!

Studying art history is actually one of the few ways of getting a good job in the arts sector. It's hard to be a museum curator without it, work in any senior position in an auction house or gallery, or become a serious art critic.

I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.

I am not nostalgic for the past. And for me, being a museum curator was a childhood dream.

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for my set of skills was an air traffic accident investigator, of which there are fewer than fifty in the world. The number two job was a museum curator for Chinese-American studies. The number three job was a circus clown.

You get to be your own curator of your own exhibits inside.