Kate Hall (curator)

Kate Marion Hall (1861 – 1918) was a British museum curator.[1]

She was curator of the Whitechapel Museum from 1895 to 1909,[2] and founded the Nature Study Museum, in a disused chapel of St George in the East church, in 1904.[1]

In 1905 she was one of the speakers in the Horniman Museum's series of lectures, speaking on "The life of the honey bee", "The work of the honey bee", and "Trees".[3]

In 1901 she read a paper "The Smallest Museum" at the Edinburgh Conference of the Museums Association.[4][5]

References

1. Hill, Kate (2016). "Kate Hall - a female curator". Women and Museums, 1850-1914: Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge. Oxford UP. pp. 23–25. ISBN 9780719081156.
2. Newman, Leanne (9 October 2017). "Kate Marion Hall and The Whitechapel Museum". Survey of London. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
3. "Horniman History: Lectures given by Women". Horniman Museum. 8 March 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
4. Hall, Kate (1901). "The smallest museum: paper read at the Edinburgh Conference 1901". The Museums Journal. 1 (2): 38–45.
5. Sanders, Dawn L. (2016). "Seeing Things for Themselves: Jacqueline Palmer, Natural History Educator 1948–1960". Journal of Natural History Education & Experience. 10: 1–5. Retrieved 18 June 2018.

Further reading

• Newman, Leanne (2017). "Kate Hall "A Fellow of the Linnean Society and creator of a beautiful and famous municipal garden"". The London Gardener. London Parks and Garden Trust. 21: 11–25.