Museum

Flash Mob Takes Over Museum To Call Out Planet-Wrecking BP Donation

December 2, 2024 The Canary. Resist! BP, climate crisis, Corporatism, Fossil Fuels, Museum, United Kingdom (UK)

On Saturday 30 November the Great Court of the British Museum was taken over by the Climate Choir Movement flash mob when around two hundred visitors at the British Museum café stood up and broke into three-part harmony to sing: ‘It’s time to drop BP! Don’t take their dirty money!’ The singers, including members of Bristol Climate Choir, then processed to the entrance of the British Museum Great Court, the largest covered public square in Europe, and performed the classical hit Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss, complete with new anti-BP words.

Protesters Gatecrash Exhibition Launch Over ‘Stolen Culture’

April 22, 2015 BP or Not BP, www.bp-or-not-bp.org Resist! Australia, culture, indigenous, Museum, Oil & Gas, United Kingdom (UK)

At 10.30am this morning the official media launch of the British Museum’s new BP-sponsored exhibition, “Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation”, was interrupted by an unexpected theatrical protest. A group of “actorvists” from BP or not BP?, dressed as robbers in striped T-shirts and eyemasks, temporarily blocked the exhibition entrance with a banner reading “Stolen Land, Stolen Culture, Stolen Climate”and read out quotes from Aboriginal leaders and activists, in front of a crowd of journalists waiting to get in. The protest highlighted concerns that the British legacy of taking Aboriginal land, objects and resources without permission continues today and is perpetuated by elements of the exhibition and by its sponsor, BP.

Whitney Museum Protested Over Gas Pipeline Under Building

April 15, 2015 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Museum, New York City (NYC), Pipelines

Activists from various arts and activist groups, including Occupy Museums, Occupy the Pipeline, Sane Energey Project, Liberate Tate, Peng Collective, The Yes Lab, Guerrilla Girls, People's Climate Arts, and others held an artful pre-opening protest at the Whitney Museum. (See www.WhitneyPipeline.org for more information.) The protest was against the Spectra energy pipeline that runs through New Jersey, under the Hudson River and across the West Side Highway, terminating in a vault beneath the yet-to-open Whitney Museum. Artist-activist Kim Fraczek reports that the goal of the artful protest was to "engage the public to ask questions about fossil fuels, our future and what roles our institutions should play in leading us to a renewable future rather than succumbing to more fracked gas."

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