...created by Jason Scott-Warren, @jes1003:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/587089

London, 22/5/21: student climate strikers joined by BP or not BP? in calling for the museum to drop oil giant

Shell as sponsor for its flagship climate exhibition. Petition handed to management amid calls for boycott. 

@ukscn_london

@drop_BP

Photos courtesy of Ron F (@TheWeeklyBull)

From our excellent friends at BP or not BP?:

https://bp-or-not-bp.org/2021/05/22/roman-choir-brings-violins-and-fire…

From our friends at UKSCN:

The Science Museum's new climate exhibition, Our Future Planet, is being sponsored by one of the world's biggest polluters: oil giant Shell. This is unacceptable.

We've signed petitions and sent open letters calling on them to drop Shell, but so far there's been no reply.

But if thousands of us pledge to boycott this upcoming exhibition, it will show the Science Museum the consequences of their decision to partner with a polluter like Shell.'

From our friends at @ukscn_london:

'we have put pressure on the @sciencemuseum

to #dropshell’s sponsorship of their new carbon capture exhibition. their response wasn’t good enough, so we are calling for action. join us in demanding that shell’s sponsorship is dropped: 22nd may | 2pm | the science museum'

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/demand-the-science-museum-drops-…

https://hyperallergic.com/639027/the-science-museum-in-london-faces-bac…

See also: https://cultureunstained.org/oil-sponsorship-of-the-science-museum/

www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/our-future-planet

Robin Ince's blog explains the reasoning behind his decision to also pull out of the event:

In the Hope of Better Possible Futures - Why I Pulled Out of the Science Museum Event:

BREAKING! Our campaign against oil sponsorship of the arts has just won 'Best Campaign' at the #CreativeGreen Awards 2020, organised and hosted by the amazing Julie's Bicycle.

This award is for everyone who has been part of this creative movement, from artists to activists, and from arts workers to youth strikers!

From our friends at Fossil Free Culture in the Netherlands:  

'Last night was 25 years since 9 Nigerian activists were hanged for activism against Shell. Our hearts are with their families & communities. Last night we commemorated their deaths at Shell sponsored NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam. 

We, & so many others, follow in their footsteps;

NEMO offers violent climate denier Shell a podium to present itself as a company with a heart, by accepting their blood money. NEMO, we will not stop until you cut your ties with Shell.

More from our good friends at BP or not BP?:

'Today we held a protest at the British Museum, in solidarity with Indigenous Arctic communities whose sacred lands are under immediate threat from oil drilling.