Greenpeace activists scale British Museum to protest BP sponsorship
by Adam Vaughan from Environment | The Guardian on (#1E97D)
Museum temporarily closes as activists hang huge banners renaming the new BP-sponsored Sunken Cities Egypt exhibition as 'Sinking Cities'
Greenpeace activists have climbed the British Museum and have hung banners off its columns in protest at BP's sponsorship of its new ancient Egypt exhibition.
The museum was temporarily closed for around four hours on Thursday during the protest because of "visitor safety reasons."
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