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Greenpeace climbs British Museum on opening day of BP-sponsored “Sunken cities” exhibition

Last edited 19 May 2016 at 10:52am
19 May, 2016

London, 19 May 2016 - Greenpeace activists are scaling the British Museum in protest at oil giant BP’s sponsorship of a new blockbuster exhibition. The climbers are hanging seven huge banners down the front columns of the museum. The banners carry the names of cities and regions struck by flooding and climate change disasters.

 

The ‘Sunken Cities’ showcase – which opened this morning – displays artefacts recovered from two ancient cities submerged under the Mediterranean. But in what campaigners call ‘a stunning irony’ the exhibition is being used to promote oil company BP.

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