Gallery announces end of 30-year partnership after pressure from leading artists, campaigners and public, joining leading cultural institutions in ‘unstoppable rejection’ of fossil fuel funding. British Museum now in the spotlight over Director’s plans to renew BP sponsorship.

Emails reveal museum director is actively pursuing renewal of controversial sponsorship deal with BP, as over 300 archaeologists sign letter to Board of Trustees calling on them to cut ties to the oil giant and details of secretive ‘Chairman’s Advisory Group’, giving BP a direct line to the museum’s leadership, are revealed on Channel 4 News.

Last week, powerful Indigenous voices calling for the Science Museum to Drop Adani were brought right to the museum’s front door via a large AdVan. It’s time the museum’s leaders demonstrated they are listening.

The Science Museum Chair has responded to a letter from Indigenous people asking her to listen to their experiences and drop Adani. Did she even read the letter?

Leading scientists call out Science Museum Group’s chair Dame Mary Archer for claiming reasonable objections are ‘false attacks’. Their letter pushes back against the museum’s claims new sponsor Adani Green Energy is unconnected to its parent company’s coal operations and that a problematic ‘gagging clause’ is ‘standard’. At the same time, one of the UK’s leading scientists, Sir David King, also calls on museum to reconsider its fossil fuel partnerships.

A group of Indigenous people have sent a letter to the Science Museum Group (SMG) calling on its leadership to listen to Indigenous peoples’ concerns about its new sponsorship deal with Adani Green Energy, whose parent company Adani Group is a major operator of coal mines and coal-fired power stations in India, Indonesia and Australia. … Continue reading Indigenous people say to Science Museum: ‘Listen to us!’

Tonight, Channel 4 News has revealed that the Science Museum’s contract with Adani Green Energy to sponsor its new ‘Energy Revolution’ Gallery includes a “gagging clause” identical to one signed with the oil giant Shell earlier this year, which triggered a major backlash among the scientific community. Documents released following a Freedom of Information Act … Continue reading Science Museum signed ‘gagging clause’ with Adani despite outcry over Shell contract

Today an open letter has been published, signed by many prominent scientists and contributors to the Science Museum Group, announcing they will not work with the organisation until it commits to ending its partnerships with fossil fuel companies. This follows the museum’s controversial announcements in April that oil and gas giant Shell would sponsor its … Continue reading Leading scientists pledge ‘not to work with’ Science Museum until fossil fuel partnerships end

On Saturday afternoon, a statement issued by the Chair of the Science Museum Group confirmed that both mathematician and presenter Dr Hannah Fry and Director of the Institute for Research in Schools Dr Jo Foster have resigned from the museum’s Board of Trustees over its stance on fossil fuel sponsorship, setting out how they did not agree with the … Continue reading Science Museum: trustees resign, young people barred

On Tuesday evening, Director of the Science Museum Group Ian Blatchford appeared on BBC Radio 4’s flagship arts programme Front Row to respond to the growing controversy surrounding the museum’s stance on fossil fuel sponsorship. The museum has been facing a growing backlash since it announced in April that the oil giant Shell would sponsor … Continue reading Indigenous leader slams Science Museum Director for dismissing Adani concerns as ‘exaggerated’