Source: Culture Unstained

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BP sponsorship of British Museum ends after 27 years, as tide turns on fossil fuel funding of the arts

  2023-06-02 in Culture Unstained

In a hugely significant WIN, it has been confirmed by the Guardian that BP's sponsorship of the British Museum's major exhibitions has ended! Today, we are celebrating alongside everyone that has been part of a long-running campaign of creative protest and people power which has led to the end of BP sponsorship of the British…

  Tagged under: BP | Activism

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Timeline: How the Science Museum’s Director dismissed its own research on Adani – and forged ahead with new sponsorship deal

  2023-03-28 in Culture Unstained

We’ve pieced together the twists and turns in the Science Museum Group’s (SMG) decision to sign a new sponsorship deal with Adani, including the ways in which the Director brushed off concerns raised in the Museum’s own 12-page Due Diligence report on the Adani Group and how a workaround was found to distance the Museum…

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Science Museum cancels event as speakers withdraw over fossil fuel sponsorship

  2022-04-27 in Culture Unstained

The Science Museum has been forced into cancelling a prominent panel discussion at the last minute after speakers withdrew from the event in protest at the museum’s highly controversial stance on fossil fuel sponsorship. ‘The Doors of Perception: Exploring Psychedelic Therapy’ was set to take place tonight in the Museum’s ‘Ronson Theatre’ and featured a…

  Tagged under: Activism

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‘Disappointing and patronising’: scientists rebut Science Museum chair’s defence of fossil fuel sponsors

  2021-12-16 in Culture Unstained

Leading scientists call out Science Museum Group’s chair Dame Mary Archer for claiming reasonable objections are ‘false attacks’Letter pushes back against 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’One of UK’s leading scientists, Sir David King, also calls on museum…

  Tagged under: Coal

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Science Museum board member resigns over oil sponsorship

  2021-10-02 in Culture Unstained

Former Science Museum director and respected climate scientist quits Advisory Board over museum’s ‘willingness to accept oil and gas sponsorship’Move marks significant shift in position by Professor Rapley, who oversaw and defended a major Shell sponsorship deal while at the helm of the museum Resignation comes ahead of COP26 climate talks and intensifies pressure on museum…

  Tagged under: Shell | COP26

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