OILY INSTITUTIONS WAITING EAGERLY TO HEAR YOUR OPINIONS:

National Portrait Gallery (Portrait Award sponsored by BP)
Sandy Nairne, Director, NPG, St. Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE
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Tel: 020 7312 2463
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Tate Britain
(British Art Displays 1500-2008 sponsored by BP, which also supports regular kids days at the gallery)
Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate Galleries, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG; This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it
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Tel: 020 7887 8888;
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Science Museum
(BP & Shell both currently major sponsors, as are GlaxoSmithKline & HSBC [not exactly preferable to Big Oil!])
Prof. Chris Rapley, Director, SM, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2DD.
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Tel: 0870 870 4868
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Barbican
(host of the London link-up to this year’s Shell AGM)
Sir Nicholas Kenyon, Managing Director, Barbican Centre, Silk Street ,London EC2Y 8DS
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Tel: 020 7638 4141
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Natural History Museum
(Shell is no longer sponsor of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition, but it still donates over £25,000pa, as does BP. Other supporters include British Airways & RioTinto. Current Prime
Minister-appointed NHM Trustees include Louise Charlton of Brunswick Group, the public relations firm contracted in 2004 by Shell to carry out damage limitation in the wake of its reserves-reporting scandal. Sir William Castell, non-executive director of BP, retired as NHM Trustee early in 2008.)
Michael Dixon, Director, NHM, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD
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Tel: 020 7942 5000
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Royal Opera House
(The upper echelon of ROH funders, known as the ‘Chairman's Circle’, includes BP & Rio Tinto. BP funds the ‘Summer Screens’ programme of video link-ups  across the UK)
Tony Hall, Chief Executive, Bow Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 9DD
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Tel: 020 7240 1200
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British Museum
(BP is a current Global Partner, and sponsor of major exhibitions)
Neil MacGregor, Director, BM, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG
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Tel: 020 7323 8000/8299
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National Gallery
(Shell is a regular sponsor of major exhibitions, and Trustee Lord Kerr of Kinlochard is currently Deputy Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell and Chairman of the Court and Council of Imperial College, which supplies more graduates to the oil industry than almost any other college. Exxon is also a recent sponsor.)
Dr. Nicholas Penny, Director, NG, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN
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Tel: 020 7747 2885
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National Maritime Museum
(Supported by BP Shipping Ltd and Shell International Trading and Shipping. NMM Trustee Jan Kopernicki is Vice-President of Shipping for the Shell International Trading and Shipping Company. )
Kevin Fewster, Director, NMM, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF
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Tel: 020 8858 4422
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National Theatre
(As a ‘Premiere Partner’, Shell UK Ltd gets anonymity about its perks.
As a Premium Member, BP gets this: ‘Our most prestigious and flexible membership level, offering a generous range of entertaining opportunities. The key benefit is a 100-person evening sponsorship event, offering branding to reach both your guests and the wider NT audience. Other benefits include an invitation to our annual Chairman's Dinner, a 40-person private event, two opportunities for complimentary NT space hire and an allocation of tickets, backstage tours and Platform performances.’
As a Platinum Member, American Airlines get this: ‘This highly flexible membership level focuses on private hospitality, offering 40 best tickets with private dining. Other benefits include an exclusive event for 30 guests, two special Platinum evenings with a chance to meet the cast, an invitation to our annual Chairman's Dinner, an opportunity for complimentary NT space hire and an allocation of tickets, backstage tours and Platform performances.’
As a Team Builder Member, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc (known as ‘the Oil Bank of Scotland’ for its peerlessly energetic sourcing of funds for new oil and gas projects; http://www.oyalbankofscotland.com) gets this: ‘This is a flexible, innovative corporate membership package focusing entirely on benefits that can be offered to employees, including a private party, an allocation of free tickets, backstage tours, Platform performances and a discount on our actor-led training courses.’
Gold Member Tesco plc gets this: ‘Six exclusive Gold members' evenings per year are the key benefit of this level. Each evening includes tickets, drinks and a supper reception, as well as the chance to meet the cast after the play. Other benefits include an allocation of free tickets, private dining packages, backstage tours and Platform performances.’)
Nicholas Hytner, NT, South Bank, London SE1 9PX
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Tel: 020 7452 3400
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So there you have it. More information that you probably ever needed, but possibly a revealing snapshot of a cultural sector that has yet to walk the talk when it comes to climate change and sustainability. It may be a victim to some degree of the privatisation of public art and the diversion of government revenues into catastrophic wars for the control of dwindling energy resources, but might it be past time expect even a whimper of protest from these institutions, their bosses and their employees? Or are they too deeply embedded in a status quo that is unable to countenance the possibility of the loss of its own privilege?

Hmm, answers on a postcard please…