British Museum to remove Sackler name from galleries

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

British Museum to remove Sackler name from galleries

March 26, 2022

LONDON (AP) — The British Museum will remove the Sackler name from galleries, rooms and endowments following global outrage over the role the family played in the opioid crisis.

The museum is the latest cultural institution to cut ties with the Sacklers. The Sackler name has been removed in recent years from wings and galleries at institutions including the Louvre in Paris and the Serpentine Gallery in London.

The British Museum said it had mutually agreed on the move with trustees of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation, which has supported the museum for more than 30 years.

“The British Museum is grateful for the Foundation’s past support, and the Trustees appreciate their co-operation in coming to this agreement as we now move the museum into a new era and present our incredible collections in different ways for new audiences,” museum Chairman George Osborne said in a statement.

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FILE - Exterior of the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in Hyde Park, London, July 21, 2019. The British Museum will remove the Sackler name from galleries, rooms and endowments following global outrage over the role the family played in the opioid crisis. The Sackler name has been removed in recent years from wings and galleries at institutions including the Louvre in Paris and the Serpentine Gallery in London. (AP Photo/Tony Hicks, File)

[dalton99a]

1. About damn time.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Leave one display, showing the role that the Sackler family had in spreading the use of Opioids

across the globe, one of the world's worse drug dealers ever.

[barbaraann]

5. I just posted my thoughts along the same lines. Glad I'm not alone. n/t

[lame54]

3. Now, our turn for the Kochs

[barbaraann]

4. Here's what they should do instead:

Leave the name up throughout the museum, install additional plaques alongside each one with an explanation of the what the Sackler family has done to humanity and statements of what the museum will do to atone for its association with that family. Also, perhaps install a permanent exhibit about the opioid crisis and the Sackler family. Can you tell my family was touched by opioid deaths?