Met drops Sackler name amid opioid ire

April 2017 panoramic image of the space in the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that houses the Temple of Dendur. The Met and the Sacklers announced on December 10, 2021 that the family name would be removed from the museum building. Image by Paulo JC Nogueira, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
April 2017 panoramic image of the space in the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that houses the Temple of Dendur. The Met and the Sacklers announced on December 10, 2021 that the family name would be removed from the museum building. Image by Paulo JC Nogueira, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
April 2017 panoramic image of the space in the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art that houses the Temple of Dendur. The Met and the Sacklers announced on December 10, 2021 that the family name would be removed from the museum building. Image by Paulo JC Nogueira, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and shared under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

NEW YORK (AP) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art is dropping the Sackler name from seven exhibition spaces amid growing outrage over the role the family may have played in the opioid crisis.

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