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What is a 21st Century Curator?

By: Jaime Clifton, Research Curator

When museums first shifted their focus to visitor experience in the 1980s and 1990s, they had to develop a new approach to audience engagement. They needed to find new ways to share the voices and experiences of many different people while decreasing their authoritarian presence. They essentially needed to learn to listen. While many have made big strides over the last couple of decades, this issue is still front and centre. Perhaps they can’t break free from their authoritarian past because they are bound by their institutional walls.

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