Katy Barrett

Dr Katy Barrett is Curator of Art Collections at the Science Museum, London. Previously, she was Curator of Art, pre-1800, at Royal Museums Greenwich and has held various posts at the Whipple Museum for the History of Science in Cambridge, the Natural History Museum, the British Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. She has higher degrees in History of Art and History of Science and is active on social media as @SpoonsonTrays. Katy has co-authored The Sun: One Thousand Years of Scientific Imagery, published Autumn 2018.