From school trips to evening events, the Science Museum has much to offer. But its reputation is now compromised by its willingness to participate in the greenwashing of fossil fuel producers who are both complicit in the genocide in Palestine. The museum has lost public trust in its integrity and objectivity: it is no longer a Science Museum but a corporate mouthpiece.

Who sponsors the Science Museum?

The Science Museum is sponsored by Adani and BP, both of whom are ramping up fossil fuel extraction, complicit in the genocide in Palestine, and guilty of human rights abuses globally.

Adani is the world’s biggest private producer of coal, which it extracts by denying the rights of Indigenous people to their lands. At the same time, Adani produces weapons in partnership with the Israeli arms company Elbit Systems, which are being used to oppress and perpetrate the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

At the Science Museum, Adani is the named sponsor of its climate and energy gallery, ‘Energy Revolution’.

BP remains one of the world’s biggest polluters and producers of oil and gas, with ongoing impacts from its oil spills and gas flaring felt by communities and in ecosystems around the world. It has now abandoned its already weak climate goals as it chooses to ploughs billions into new fossil fuel extraction, while supplying fuel to the Israeli military and directly profiting from the genocide in Palestine.

At the Science Museum, BP is the sponsor of its STEM Academy which trains teachers and science educators.

Why a boycott?

Over many years, the Science Museum has received numerous open letters and formal submissions, and faced large-scale protests over its unethical stance on fossil fuel sponsorship. It is one of vanishingly few cultural organisations still taking money from fossil fuel producers.

In light of the worsening climate emergency and the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, a boycott of the Museum is now the proportionate response - one that is both strategic and targeted - in order to bring about change and remove the social legitimacy that Adani and BP gain from their associations with the Museum.

Sign the pledge

We - writers, academics, performers, artists, scientists, musicians, culture workers - refuse to contribute to Science Museum events and activities and will refuse contracts with the museum while Adani and BP remain sponsors. We are calling for a full educational, cultural and academic boycott of the Science Museum until Adani and BP are dropped as sponsors.

By signing the pledge, you will become part of the educational, cultural and academic boycott of the Science Museum - until Adani and BP are dropped as sponsors.

P.S. In the wrong place? If you're not able to sign the cultural workers and academic pledge, please consider taking action as a parent and/or educator instead!