Science Museum’s secret VIP opening targeted

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

 

  • Protesters greeted guests at every entrance to the Science Museum as it hosted private opening of new climate gallery

'Energy Revolution' protests at Science Museum

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 #Gaza genocide.

A massive banner drop ended two hours of speeches, processions and smaller banner drops throughout the museum.

Art to End Fossil Fuels

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 this Summer's extreme heat, fires, toxic smoke and flooding. 

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

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 split as a ‘massive victory’, which marks a retreat of the fossil fuel giant from the British arts world'

SCIENCE MUSEUM: AN UNRAVELLING TRAGEDY

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 the Science Museum’s corporate sponsor, and those on the ground who are leading the resistance to its impacts on Indigenous communities and the climate.