Kate Hall (curator) explained

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.^[3] She founded the Nature Study Museum, in a disused chapel of St George in the East church, in 1904.

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

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]}

Further reading

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

Notes and References

1. Book: Hill . Kate . Women and Museums, 1850-1914: Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge . 2016 . Oxford UP . 9780719081156 . 23–25 . https://books.google.com/books?id=9_U-DwAAQBAJ&q=%22kate+hall%22+whitechapel&pg=PA23 . Kate Hall - a female curator.
2. October 1918. Obituary. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. 130. 1. 61–63. 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1918.tb01150.x. 0370-0461.
3. Web site: Newman . Leanne . Kate Marion Hall and The Whitechapel Museum . . 18 June 2018 . 9 October 2017.
4. Web site: Horniman History: Lectures given by Women . . 18 June 2018 . 8 March 2018.
5. Hall . Kate . The smallest museum: paper read at the Edinburgh Conference 1901 . The Museums Journal . 1901 . 1 . 2 . 38–45.
6. Sanders . Dawn L. . Seeing Things for Themselves: Jacqueline Palmer, Natural History Educator 1948–1960 . Journal of Natural History Education & Experience . 2016 . 10 . 1–5 . 18 June 2018.