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]