Katie King has worked for Manx National Heritage since 2004. In June 2021 she was appointed Curator: Art & Social History. For the preceding twelve years she was the Community Outreach & Learning Officer for the organisation, where she enjoyed engaging visitors with the collections in Manx National Heritage’s care, whilst also championing an 'access for all' ethos across the organisation and the island as a whole.
Katie brings her passion for audience engagement to the role of Curator: Art & Social History, and delights in using the collections to engage and inspire visitors. The diverse collections she cares for all have one thing in common – they are all about people. It is through revealing these human stories, sometimes through aesthetic beauty and sometimes through everyday ordinariness, that connections can be made. She believes it is through making these ordinary connections that the collections become more relevant and engaging to audiences.
Katie’s specialist area of interest is the Island’s tourist history, in particular the late Victorian tourist heyday.
Katie was born on the Isle of Man, and studied History at the University of Liverpool, before completing her master's in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. She has previously worked at The Wordsworth Trust and National Museums Liverpool.