Culture Unstained reports:
Today, we’re revealing damning new details behind BP’s current sponsorship of the museum’s ‘Science Museum Group Academy’ for training educators across the country. While the museum continues to claim that it ‘retains editorial control of the content within our exhibitions and galleries’ – that BP and other sponsors have had no say over its curatorial or programming decisions – we’ve discovered how the multi-year research project that led to the creation of the museum’s Science Museum Group Academy was funded – and chaired – by BP, with the company able to directly veto decisions over the project’s direction.