No to BP Funding the British Museum

30 November 2024: A banner unfurls from high above the Great Court. It reads DROP BP. Fluttering briefly between two ionic columns, it settles. Heads turn to look up. Then a flashmob appears from nowhere. To the tune of Space Odyssey singers launch into TIME TO DROP BP. The flagship British Museum has chosen to accept huge amounts of funding from BP for its redevelopment programme. BP is a global oil company that continues to prioritise massive investment in fossil fuels, in fact has doubled down on this type of investment in recent years. The museum purports to be sustainable. It is not sustainable to collaborate and promote one of the fossil fuel giants who are wrecking biodiversity and lives across the planet. What is a museum if not a place to learn, discover, and treat different cultures with respect? Oil magnates profiting out of climate emergency with no thought for populations devastated by it are NOT SUSTAINABLE.