New documents reveal BP’s disturbing influence and involvement in STEM education projects mounted by London’s Science Museum. Materials disclosed under FOI rules show how the oil and gas company chaired and had the power to veto decisions for a major research project which now forms the basis of the BP-sponsored ‘Science Museum Group (SMG) Academy’ for training teachers and educators in STEM.
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.
Unions and groups representing scientists, teachers, parents and workers in the arts have called for those working in education and culture sectors to join a boycott of the Science Museum to demand an end to the Museum’s ongoing sponsorship arrangements with fossil fuel producers BP and Adani.
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