An excellent story from the Museums Journal (aka the Museums Association):

https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/opinion/2024/07/foss…

From @Cult_Unstained: 'Wow! This weekend saw huge resistance to unethical sponsorship of two of London’s major museums - by the climate justice movement, Palestine solidarity groups, human rights groups, parents and scientists and young people'...

From https://www.fossilfreesciencemuseum.com/protest-at-secret-launch

Images credit: Fossil Free Science Museum Coalition

Thursday 21 March 2024, 8.30pm

​Science Museum’s secret VIP opening of new climate gallery hit by protest over coal and arms sponsor Adani

Tweet from @RealMediaGB, 23.3.24: The Science Museum will be opening its new #Adani-sponsored ‘Energy Revolution’ gallery on Tuesday 26th March, and a wide variety of groups occupied the museum this afternoon to expose Adani’s far from Green credentials and its connections to the

An update from the ever-industrious and inspired Culture Unstained:

Today (5.12.23), The Times has broken the story of our latest investigation - which reveals how the Director of the Science

Thanks for the ever-fantastic realmedia for this story:

https://realmedia.press/health-workers-science-museum-protest/

News from our excellent friends at Rising Tide North America:

When world leaders discuss climate action at the United Nations in New York this September, people across the world will hit the street in massive coordinated action to demand that governments end fossil fuels. Fossil Fuels are the primary cause of the climate crisis, causing

Thanks to The Art Newspaper for this coverage:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/07/artists-and-cultural-leaders…

More than 80 artists and cultural figures have called on Hartwig Fischer, the 

Testament to the escalating horrors of climate breakdown, and of course the extraordinary tenacity and creativity of 18 years of climate justice-fuelled interventions...

More here: https://cultureunstained.org/latest-news/

See also 

'British Museum ends BP sponsorship deal after 27 years

Campaigners hail

Posted by the ever-excellent Culture Unstained (28.3.23):

'The Science Museum Group: an unravelling tragedy, produced with our allies in the Fossil Free Science Museum Coalition, is a brand-new photo book which tells a true story about ‘energy revolution’. This is the story of a struggle between Adani, a major polluter and

From the good folk at https://www.facebook.com/BPnotBP/:

'On Saturday, we paid a visit to the

From our delighted friends at Culture Unstained:

• After 33 years, Royal Opera House confirms that is is ‘not in receipt of BP money’
• Campaigners celebrate ‘seismic shift’ as leading arts

A message from Oliver Ressler:

'Hi all,

I would like to inform you about the large solo exhibition “Barricading the Ice Sheets: Repossess the Plant, the Planet” at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación

18.1.23

From our friends at Real Media:

On

From our friends at Real Media: https://realmedia.press/bp-or-not-bp-hieroglyphs/

See also: https://cultureunstained.org/2022/12/12/will-the-british-museum-finally…

and

'British Museum seeks to no longer be a

From our good friends at Culture Unstained (11.10.22):

• Ahead of new BP-sponsored Egypt exhibition, British Museum Director is urged not to “celebrate Egypt’s cultural past while ignoring the human rights situation in the

From our friends at Fossil Free Arts:

'Friends, we did it!!

Over three years ago we set out to rid Perth's two premier arts festivals of their poisonous partnerships with WA's two biggest emitters

Thanks to the Art Newspaper for running this story:

'Temperatures might now be cooling, but tensions around the London institution’s ties to the oil giant are reaching boiling point'...

Taken from the Morning Star, 12.9.22:

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/artist-stages-intervention-sh…

Artist Darren Cullen challenged an exhibition sponsored by Shell at London’s Science Museum by staging an

The South Asia Solidarity Group protested against Adani sponsorship of the Science Museum both outside and inside it on August 31st 2022, on the evening of its India-related 'Lates' event:

'We attended the Science Museum’s India Lates event on 31 August 2022 as part of the Fossil Fuel Science Museum coalition. Here we are

From The Guardian (15.7.22):

Hundreds of teachers have pledged not to take their students to a new exhibition at the Science Museum in London until it cancels its sponsorship deal with a company linked to the coalminer Adani.

More than 400 teachers

From our friends at UKSCN:

29.6.22: 'today, we visited the science museum with the Fossil Free Science Museum coalition to demand that they drop Adani as a sponsor #StopAdani with this climate crime scene we wanted to highlight the crimes of 

See more here:

https://cultureunstained.org/recruitment/

Last night (April 23rd), we occupied four rooms inside the British Museum after hours in protest against the museum’s controversial sponsor, the oil giant BP. Our performers smuggled in a huge, 10-metre version of the oil company’s logo, made from wood and fabric, which we dramatically “dismantled” in a hundreds-strong performance in the museum’s Great Court at 4pm.

We then took the

From our friends over at Fossil Free Culture NL:

'The opening of Megalith on Friday 8 April, 2022 was supposed to be a celebratory event. However, even as artist Marit Westerhuis’ new solo show addresses the disturbing realities of the ecological crisis, the Groninger Museum continues to

Terrific news from our doughty friends at Culture Unstained:

'After coming under criticism in recent years over its prominent partnerships first with Shell and then BP, this year’s New Scientist Live festival – which takes place in Manchester this weekend – will have no fossil fuel companies as sponsors or exhibitors. This is understood to signal a shift in policy, after BP

by Alice Proctor

'The National Portrait Gallery has announced that it won’t renew its partnership with BP when its current agreement expires in December, ending thirty years of sponsorship. Though the official statements vaguely suggest that the decision comes

'Speaking at the festival, the author took aim at the event’s "embarrassing" financial arrangements that come "straight out of the big tobacco playbook"':

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/feb/28/it-makes-us-chumps-tim-…

[Photo: BP or not BP? protest against Scottish Ballet, November 12, 202]

'Scottish Ballet has become the latest cultural institution to distance itself from the fossil fuel industry with an announcement that it has cut its ties with BP. This follows a dance protest outside the Theatre Royal in Glasgow during COP26