- Two young people are barred from entering the museum less than a day after the Chair of Trustees promised to 'engage...with those who disagree with our position'
- Prof Christopher Jackson declines an invitation to be a museum trustee over environmental concerns.
- Former Trustee, Dr Sarah Dry reveals that she had opposed the museum’s decision to accept sponsorship from Adani.
- Mathematician and presenter Dr Hannah Fry and Director of the Institute for Research in Schools Dr Jo Foster resign from the museum’s Board of Trustees over its stance on fossil fuel sponsorship. Hannah explains her reasons in a Times comment piece.
- The Wangan and Jagalingou cultural custodians, traditional owners of the land where Adani is building a giant coal mine in Australia, speak out against the Adani sponsorship and museum Director Ian Blatchford’s dismissal of their concerns on BBC Radio 4
- BBC Front Row: Director Ian Blatchford is challenged over the sponsorship deal with Adani.
- UK Student Climate Network London organise a vigil and overnight occupation of the Science Museum to remember the victims of fossil fuel companies.
- On the day the Science Museum welcomes top investors in innovation for a Global Investment Summit, the museum and Adani announce their new sponsorship deal, provoking widespread negative media coverage - see the FT, Guardian, Independent and Sky for example. Extinction Rebellion’s protest highlights that the Science Museum is ‘doubling down’ on its ‘reckless’ choices of funder
- Former Science Museum director, Prof Chris Rapley CBE resigns from the Science Museum’s Advisory Board over the issue of fossil fuel sponsorship.
