Join the Education & Culture Boycott of the Science Museum
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 Palestiner. The museum has lost public trust in its integrity and objectivity: it is no longer a Science Museum but a corporate mouthpiece.
New COP teaching materials: greenwashing at the Science Museum
Written with teachers boycotting the Science Museum and backed by the NEU, Fossil Free Science Museum has developed exciting new teaching materials for KS 3 & 4 to support students to think critically about fossil fuel and arms sponsorship, particularly of educational institutions they might be invited to visit with their school such as the Science Museum.
The materials include slides and printable cards and sheets, download them below:
Latest: London Science Museum cuts links with BP after decades of partnership
This is a historic win and a ‘seismic shift’ following years of pressure to sever ties with oil and gas firm.
The London Science Museum has ended its decades-long partnership with the oil and gas company BP in what has been described as a “seismic shift” for the museum.
The Science Museum Group academy, which was established in 2018 to provide training and resources, announced on Friday 28th August 2026 that it would be ending its partnership with BP. In a statement, the director and chief executive of the Science Museum Group, Sir Ian Blatchford, said the partnership had “drawn to a close at the end of the current contract term”.
You can read what the press say about it in The Guardian and in a press release by Culture Unstained.
Who are the Science Museum’s sponsors?
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 [1], which it extracts by denying the rights of Indigenous people to their lands [2]. At the same time Adani produces weapons which are used to oppress and murder the Palestinian people [3].
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 and enabling the genocide in Palestine.
At the Science Museum, BP is the sponsor of its STEM Academy which trains teachers and science educators. : BP has now been dropped as a sponsor.
Who is boycotting the Science Museum?
We are calling for a full educational, cultural and academic boycott of the Science Museum until Adani and BP are dropped as sponsors.
Teachers, lecturers, educators and parents are urging our schools and universities not to bring student groups to the Science Museum, or to engage with its BP-sponsored STEM Academy, while Adani and BP remain sponsors.This boycott is supported by NEU following passing of motion at their conference in April 2025.
Writers, academics, performers, artists, scientists, musicians, and culture workers are refusing to contribute to Science Museum events and activities and will refuse contracts with the museum while Adani and BP remain sponsors.
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Why a boycott?
The Science Museum is not a legitimate place of education and culture while it promotes fossil fuel profiteers, genocide enablers, and human rights abusers. In doing so, it is disenfranchising those who once love and trusted in the museum: young people, students, educators ad scientists, as well as those impacted by the climate crisis and by the genocide of the Palestinian people.
The Museum’s upper management and trustees have closed ranks and so far dismissed or ignored legitimate interventions from teachers, scientists, parents, and culture workers. They refuse to be constructively engaged, so now is the time to vote with our feet and refuse to work with the museum in these capacities. Now is the time to withdraw our participation.
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