London, UK. 8th February, 2015. The activist group BP-or-not-BP performs outside the British Museum. Credit: Kristian Buus/Alamy Live News

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are the central characters in the play, with the museum director and BP as the villains. BP or not BP, a political performance group stage another one of their theatrical performances at the British Museum to highlight the fact that the Museum is sponsored by BP, one of the world biggest oil producing companies and responsible for numerous oils spills, including the biggest one in history, the Horizon oil disaster in the Mexican gulf.

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Location: British Museum, London, UK
Photo credit: © Kristian Buus / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: activism, art, bp, british, corporate, dirty, holmes, homes, intervention, money, museum, oil, performance, play, police, political, politics, sherlock, sponsorship, theater