The move comes after years of controversy concerning family-owned company Purdue Pharma’s role in the opioid epidemic
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest and most-visited museum in the country, will strip the Sackler family name from seven exhibition spaces -- including the iconic wing that houses the Egyptian Temple of Dendur -- after years of controversy concerning family-owned company Purdue Pharma’s role in the opioid epidemic....
While the museum’s announcement did not mention the family or Purdue Pharma’s role in selling opioids like their well known drug Oxycontin, the Met has beenThe Met previously said it would from the family in 2019, following in the footsteps of other major cultural institutions like The Guggenheim Museum and London’s Tate museums.in 2019 and was soon followed by London’s Serpentine North Gallery, thought neither cited the family’s ties to Purdue Pharma as the reasoning behind the switch.
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