The Met museum is dropping the Sackler family name from its galleries

Yesterday (December 9) New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it will remove the name of its controversial donor, the Sackler family, from its exhibition halls. The news follows accusations that the billionaire family’s opioid-manufacturing company, Purdue Pharma, has fueled the US’s deadly opioid crisis through its sales of narcotic painkillers like OxyContin. 

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