
British Museum Drops Longtime Sponsor BP
Bowing to years of pressure and protests from climate change activists as well as academics and its own staffers, the British Museum has severed ties with BP. The oil and gas conglomerate had been a major sponsor of the London institution for twenty-seven years. The parting of ways comes just four months after the most recent five-year contract between BP and the museum expired and seven months after British Museum chair George Osborne publicly expressed the goal of bringing the institution to net zero. According to The Guardian, which broke the news, the museum in a statement acknowledged that