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Activists Crash British Museum Opening to Protest Egypt’s Political Prisoners

by Rhea Nayyar October 11, 2022October 12, 2022

The anti-fuel group Culture Unstained criticized the museum’s connections to British Petroleum and its silence on the imprisonment of Egyptian political critic Alaa Abd El-Fattah.

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British Museum Drops Sackler Name — But Not Everywhere

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu March 25, 2022March 25, 2022

The disgraced family’s name will remain on the museum’s benefactors’ board and its Great Court donor list.

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Prehistoric Drum Found in Child’s Grave Dubbed “Most Important” Finding in a Century

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 21, 2022February 22, 2022

But the discovery was drowned out by the drumbeat of protest against the British Museum following new revelations about its ties to a fossil fuel company.

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London’s Science Museum Faces Backlash Over Oil-Sponsored Climate Exhibition

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia April 19, 2021April 20, 2021

“By allowing Shell to sponsor this exhibition, the Science Museum is helping to boost the company’s cynical greenwash,” said Jess Worth, co-director of Culture Unstained.

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In Midst of Growing Protests, National Portrait Gallery Says BP Will No Longer Judge Annual Award

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia May 4, 2020May 4, 2020

The fossil fuel giant, which has sponsored the BP Portrait Award for 30 years, will no longer have a say in the judging process.

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Protesting BP Sponsorship, Mark Rylance Resigns as Royal Shakespeare Company’s Associate Artist

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber June 21, 2019June 21, 2019

“We are all together in this crisis and we all must change,” Rylance said in an opinion article published in the Guardian. “I am resigning to lend strength to the voices within the RSC who want to be progressive, and to encourage my fellow associates to express themselves, too.”

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Artists Affiliated with Prestigious Portrait Prize Call on National Portrait Gallery to End BP Sponsorship

Avatar photo by Zachary Small June 10, 2019

“There should be no role for an oil company in the artistic decisions of any cultural organization,” wrote the competition judge, artist Gary Hume, “and especially not in determining the winner of the world’s leading portrait award.”

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As Dutch Museums Stop Accepting Fossil Fuel Money, Oil Companies Eye UK Museums

Avatar photo by Zachary Small August 31, 2018

The Shell energy corporation has ended its years-long partnership agreements with the Van Gogh Art Museum and the Mauritshuis, but it’s already started to invest in UK-based institutions.

Activist theater group BP Or Not BP? drop thousands of paper oil drops in the British Museum in protest of BP's sponsorship of the museum. (photo by Kristian Buus, courtesy BP Or Not BP?)
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New Dossier Shows British Museum Had a Role in Dealings Between BP and Russia

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton January 19, 2018

Newly public emails show correspondence between the museum, Russia’s London embassy, British officials, and BP.

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BP Sponsorship Violates UK National Portrait Gallery’s Ethics Policy, Report Claims

by Claire Voon June 20, 2017

Culture Unstained is calling on the museum to cut ties with BP because of its connections to foreign regimes that violate human rights.

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