After BP announced it was going back to petroleum (again), #BritishMuseum Director Nick Cullinan went on BBC #FrontRow to defend its BP partnership… 🛢️🙄🏛️
But naughty Nick had a few misleading answers to Kirsty’s questions… 😮 1/x
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028bjz
But naughty Nick had a few misleading answers to Kirsty’s questions… 😮 1/x
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028bjz
Comments
While this might curb the museum’s own emissions, this doesn’t take account of the emissions arising from BP and the ways that the partnership helps to further BP’s drilling.
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BP’s money still only represents a very limited proportion of the museum’s income and the redevelopment fund.
Its dirty money doesn’t keep museums free - core public funding does.
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Tax and sponsorship are fundamentally different.
Sponsorship is a transaction that allows BP to promote its brand and gain social and cultural legitimacy.
Tax is the cost of doing business…
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Nick and the British Museum are helping BP to misleadingly portray itself as a generous philanthropist, as it pours billions into more oil and gas, polluting the air and crashing the #climate.
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In reality, the BM is much better supported, with a dedicated fundraising team and well-connected trustees.
Meanwhile, many local museums have had to cut jobs or even close due to funding cuts.
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