5. He's Got An Art Student Mindset
To understand how he might have wangled this lucrative post, let's take a look at his CV. Anyone looking for a curator to handle all aspects of the galaxy's best art need look no further than his trip to the Louvre in 1979. It might've looked to all intents & purposes as if he and Romana II were there for a simple holiday ticking off all the Parisian tourist hotspots as they strolled about the gallery, but no. As Romana declares Da Vinci's masterpiece merely quite good, the Doctor is near apoplectic with her as he calls it one of the finest pieces in the universe. And in one line he marks himself out as a man of taste. The whole scene is remarkable in that not for a second does the jelly baby lover mark himself out as odd or different. It might also help that he's adopted a very Seventies Oxford/Cambridge look with the big coat, scarf & floppy hat combo, and appears to the untrained eye to have picked himself up quite a nice muse for his sketchings. His passion for the piece shines through to such an extent he has to be told to move along by an officious art teacher- just the sort of person someone of his bohemian mindset quite rightly probably secretly despises just as much as the Daleks, Zygons, or indeed any of his more alien foes. Plus if he did study history of art at an Earth university, he probably knows a million and one ways to make beans on toast exciting and how not to waste a student grant.