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The Sackler name will be removed from the museum's exhibits.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City will no longer be referred to as the Sackler Museum.
The company was founded by the Sacklers and manufactured drugs that were blamed for causing the opiate crisis.
The Met no longer accepts gifts from the family due to increased scrutiny.
There are seven exhibition spaces at the Met that bear the Sackler name.
The Met and members of the Sackler family said in a joint statement that the action was mutually agreed in order to allow the Met to further its core mission.
The descendants of Dr Mortimer Sackler and Dr Raymond Sackler said that their families have always supported the Met.
The family said that they are passing the torch to others who might want to support the Museum.
The Temple of Dendur, an ancient Egyptian temple commissioned by the Roman governor, is housed in a wing of the Sackler exhibition spaces.
The Sacklers have been among the most generous supporters, according to the president and CEO of the Met.
The Sacklers' gesture aids the Museum in continuing to serve this and future generations.
The Tate Museum and National Portrait Gallery in the UK and the Louvre in Paris are just a few museums that have distanced themselves from the family.
In May, the Raymond Sackler family launched a website to address what it said were "many false allegations" blaming the family, Purdue Pharma and one of its products for "creating" the opioid crisis.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were nearly half a million deaths from overdoses of legal and illegal drugs in the US between 1999 and 2019.
Opioids.
The Sackler Trust is for the benefit of the Sackler family.
The United States.
