Submitted 6 months ago by GreyShuck@feddit.uk to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
Campaigners have called the British Museum “astonishingly out of touch” after it announced a 10-year £50m partnership with BP to help fund one of the biggest redevelopments in its history.
On Tuesday the museum announced the energy company would be helping to fund its ambitious “masterplan” project, a redevelopment estimated to cost £1bn.
Not at all surprising, those are the criminals who hold on to stolen artifacts from all over the world instead of giving them back. Working with a fossil corporation perfectly fits the picture.
BP gets to launder its reputation, and the British Museum gets a chunk of change that they would never have otherwise received.
n3m37h@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What the only British thing in the British Museum?
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The patrons