Last year George Osborne, the chair of London’s British Museum, said that the Sackler name would be removed from the galleries, rooms and endowments the family supported. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the American Museum of Natural History also distanced themselves from the family. In the United States, institutions such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Tate museums in London decided that they would no longer accept gifts from the family, and Britain’s National Portrait Gallery canceled a planned $1.3 million donation. In 2019, the Louvre in Paris became the first major museum to remove the name of the family from its walls.
The drug fueled an opioid crisis that has killed hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. The elite British university has become the latest in a long series of institutions to publicly distance themselves from the family, a philanthropic giant whose members led Purdue Pharma, the now bankrupt company that made Ox圜ontin. Oxford said it had received donations from the Sacklers and related trusts that ranged from 10 to 15 million pounds (about $12 million to $19 million) since 1993. Oxford “has decided that the university buildings, spaces and staff positions using the Sackler name will no longer do so,” it said in a statement. Oxford University had a Sackler Library, two Sackler galleries, a Sackler officer and a Sackler keeper of antiquities.īut after the family’s name - an acknowledgment to the dynasty’s generous donations - came under scrutiny because of some of its members’ ties to the opioid crisis in the United States, Oxford announced on Monday that it would drop mention of it from several of its buildings and staff positions.
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