Overview

• About 800 invite-only guests paid £2,000 each to attend the inaugural event co-chaired by director Nicholas Cullinan and Isha Ambani.
• Celebrity attendees included Mick Jagger, Janet Jackson, Naomi Campbell, Tracey Emin, Sadiq Khan and Rishi Sunak, with dinner set among galleries including the Duveen housing the Parthenon Marbles.
• The museum says proceeds will support partnerships in Ghana and Iraq and help secure a loan of the Bayeux Tapestry from France.
• Protesters targeted the gala over funding links, projecting 'Drop BP' on the façade and interrupting a speech by chair George Osborne to denounce the museum’s BP deal and Reliance ties.
• The programme featured a performance by sitarist Anoushka Shankar and a silent auction offering items such as a pet portrait by Tracey Emin and access to Coco Chanel’s Paris apartment.