Friends in 1,500-strong protest at British Museum

Friends took part in a mass creative protest at the British Museum this month

by Rebecca Hardy 21st February 2020

Quakers were among 1,500 people who took part in a mass creative protest on Saturday 8 February. The protest was part of a fifty-one-hour occupation against BP sponsorship at the British Museum this month. The three-day mass ‘creative takeover’ of the museum started on 7 February when a giant BP-branded Trojan Horse arrived at the site, in response to the BP-sponsored Troy: Myth and Reality exhibition. The activists remained in the museum overnight and created an art installation ‘Monument’ made up of body casts of the forty protesters to symbolise the growing movement opposing the fossil-fuel industry.