The Science Museum’s controversial relationship with major polluter BP is to end after almost 25 years. The decision follows a growing boycott over the Museum’s unethical sponsors. Pressure continues for the Science Museum to now also drop its coal and weapons giant sponsor Adani, and on the British Museum which is now the only major UK cultural institution still sponsored by BP.
In a significant shift for the culture sector, museums and galleries could soon be urged to ‘transition away’ from sponsorship deals with fossil fuel companies, as well as organisations involved in environmental harm and human rights abuses, under proposed new ethics guidelines.
British Museum members are speaking out to say that the museum's controversial deal with oil and gas giant BP must not be renewed
Last week the British Museum's chair spouted a series of 'alternative facts' straight from BP's greenwash playbook on BBC radio. We felt they needed some serious fact-checking, so our Co-Director Jess Worth obliged with this piece for DeSmog UK.
Culture Unstained 