What Does it Take to be a Museum Curator? | Career Crush

Harvard Business Review · Oct 21, 2026 · 11m

What Does it Take to be a Museum Curator? | Career Crush

Uploaded 06-12-21

7 Dec 2021

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Being a museum curator is all about helping artists bring their ideas to life — but it’s not always easy.

Natalie Bell is the curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, a contemporary art museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In this episode, she shares with Ascend editor Kelsey Alpaio what it’s really like to be a museum curator — and it’s not all rainbows. Natalie explains that the museum world is very competitive, a fair salary can be…