The decision comes after public outcry over the donor’s connection to Purdue Pharma.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which decided to no longer accept Sackler donations after a months-long review of its gift policies. By Peggy McGlone Peggy McGlone Reporter covering the arts in the Washington region Email Bio Follow May 15 at 4:38 PM The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Wednesday that it will no longer accept donations from the Sackler family of philanthropists who built their fortune from the development and sale of opioids.
Three other art institutions — the Tate galleries and National Portrait Gallery in London and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York — previously announced that they would not accept gifts from the family. The Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The Smithsonian Institution has drawn a similar distinction regarding the branches of the family and the source of their wealth. The Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery opened in 1987, months after its benefactor died and years before OxyContin came on the market.
The Met said that its decision came after a months-long review of its gift policies, which was prompted by the public outcry over the Sackler gifts. The decision was first reported in the New York Times.
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