Kate Marion Hall FLS FZS (August 1861 – 12 April 1918) was a British museum curator.[1][2]

As the curator of the Whitechapel Museum from 1894 to 1909, she was the first professionally employed female curator in England.[1][3] She founded the Nature Study Museum, in a disused chapel of St George in the East church, in 1904.[1]

Kate Hall lectured at the Toynbee Hall project, and gave lectures and demonstrations to local school children.[3]

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".[4]

In 1901, she read a paper "The Smallest Museum" at the Edinburgh Conference of the Museums Association.[5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 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. ↑ "Obituary". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. 130 (1): 61–63. October 1918. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1918.tb01150.x. ISSN 0370-0461.
  3. 1 2 Newman, Leanne (9 October 2017). "Kate Marion Hall and The Whitechapel Museum". Survey of London. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  4. ↑ "Horniman History: Lectures given by Women". Horniman Museum. 8 March 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
  5. ↑ Hall, Kate (1901). "The smallest museum: paper read at the Edinburgh Conference 1901". The Museums Journal. 1 (2): 38–45.
  6. ↑ 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.


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