The Sackler name is being erased from the British Museum
Photo by Paul Hudson, via Flickr
The British Museum's woes pile up…. and the Sackler funding saga rolls on with the London museum set to remove an inscription bearing the family name from a stone lintel within the museum. Last year, George Osborne, the museum’s chairman, announced that an agreement had been reached that “the Sackler name will be removed” (the name has become indelibly linked to the opioid epidemic that some members of the family profited from via their company Purdue Pharma). A planning application was recently submitted to Camden Council, as required for a listed building: “20mm of existing stone depth to be carefully removed” from the lintel. Looks like even a name set in stone is not set in stone…
