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Campaigners say βseismic shiftβ follows 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 βseismic shiftβ for the museum.
The Science Museum Group academy, which was established in 2018 to provide training and resources, announced on Friday 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 βdrawn to a close at the end of the current contract termβ.
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Β© Photograph: Anna Vickerstaff

Β© Photograph: Anna Vickerstaff

Β© Photograph: Anna Vickerstaff