Climate activists stage 'Stonehenge drilling prank' at British Museum to highlight BP's cultural vandalism
The group said the parody exhibition — in which performers pretended that BP was planning to drill for oil at Stonehenge — was aimed at highlighting the “hypocrisy” of the sponsorship while BP’s operations threaten other ancient sites around the globe
CLIMATE activists staged a Stonehenge oil drilling prank at the British Museum today, targeting a new BP-sponsored exhibition.
The institution has prompted renewed anger over its ongoing collaboration with “cultural vandal” BP, which is the sponsor of its “World of Stonehenge.”
Dressed in suits, members of the activist theatre group BP or not BP staged a fake exhibition complete with a “photorealistic image” of drilling rigs and pipelines at Stonehenge on the opening weekend of the new display.
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