The Sackler family has donated to numerous cultural institutions and universities, which named different things after the family. Following public revelations of the Sacklers' involvement in the opioid epidemic, groups such as P.A.I.N. began lobbying for the removal of the Sackler name.[1] As part of the bankruptcy settlement for Purdue Pharma, which was owned by the Sackler family, they allowed institutions to remove their name from scholarships and buildings.[2]
Dedication | Organisation | Location | Status | References |
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Sackler Galleries | Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | Name removed in 2023 | [21] |
Sackler Keeper of Antiquities | Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | Name removed in 2023 | [21] |
Sackler Learning Officer | Ashmolean Museum | Oxford | Name removed in 2023 | [21] |
Raymond & Beverly Sackler Galleries of the Ancient Levant | British Museum | London | Name removed in 2022 | [22] |
Sackler Library | City and Guilds of London Art School | London | Name removed by 2023 | [23][24][25] |
Sackler Library | Design Museum | London | Name removed in 2022 | [26] |
Sackler Director | Dulwich Picture Gallery | London | Name removed in 2022 | [27] |
Sackler Centre for Arts Education | Dulwich Picture Gallery | London | Presumed renamed[note 1] | [27] |
Sackler Garden | Garden Museum | London | Renamed 'Courtyard Garden' | [30][31][32] |
Sackler Crossing | Kew Gardens | London | Name removed in 2022 | [33][34] |
Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopment | King's College London | London | Name removed in 2023 | [35][36][37] |
Sackler Study Room | London Library | London | Name removed in 2022 | [38] |
Sackler Hall | Museum of London | London | Presumed closed[note 2] | [40] |
Sackler Room | National Gallery | London | Name removed in 2022 | [41] |
Sackler Pavilion | National Theatre | London | In use | [30][42] |
Sackler Biodiversity Imaging Laboratory | Natural History Museum | London | In use | [43] |
Sackler Gallery | Old Royal Naval College | London | Unclear[note 3] | [45] |
Sackler Space | The Roundhouse | London | In use | [46] |
Sackler Building | Royal College of Art | London | Renamed 'Painting Building' in 2022 | [47] |
Sackler Trust Trainee Scheme | Royal Court Theatre | London | Scheme suspended in 2019 | [30][48] |
Serpentine Sackler Gallery | Serpentine Gallery | London | Renamed 'Serpentine North Gallery' in 2021 | [49] |
Sackler Studios | Shakespeare's Globe | London | Name removed in 2022 | [50] |
Sackler Octagon Gallery | Tate Britain | London | Name removed | [51] |
Sackler Escalator | Tate Modern | London | Name removed in 2022[note 4] | [53][51] |
Sackler Staircase | Theatre Royal | Glasgow | Name removed in 2022 | [54] |
Institute for Medical Research Sackler Lecture Theatre | University of Cambridge | Cambridge | Name removed 2022 | [55] |
Institute of Astronomy Sackler Lecture Theatre | University of Cambridge | Cambridge | Presumed removed[note 5] | [55] |
Raymond and Beverley Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology | University of Cambridge | Cambridge | In use | [55] |
Sackler Chair of the UCL Institute of Mental Health | University College London | London | In use | [57][58] |
Sackler Library | University of Oxford | Oxford | Renamed 'Bodleian Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library' in 2023 | [21][59] |
Sackler-Clarendon Associate Professor of Sedimentary Geology | University of Oxford Department of Earth Sciences | Oxford | Name removed in 2023 | [21] |
Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science | University of Sussex | Sussex | Renamed 'Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science' in 2022 | [60][61][62] |
Sackler Courtyard | Victoria & Albert Museum | London | Name removed in 2022 | [63] |
Sackler Centre for Arts Education | Victoria & Albert Museum | London | Name removed in 2022 | [63] |
Sackler Trust plaque | V&A Dundee | Dundee | Plaque removed in 2023 | [64][65] |
Sackler windows | Westminster Abbey | London | In use | [66] |
In 2023, Royal Museums Greenwich said they would removed Theresa Sackler's name from their list of 'major supporters'.[36]
In July 2019 the Louvre removed the Sackler name from a wing of 12 rooms that contained eastern antiquities.[67] The Louvre issued a statement that the museum had a policy of only naming rooms for 20 years and given that the Sackler donation had been made in 1996 and 1997, the naming period was over.[67] The removal followed a protest led by Nan Goldin at the beginning of the month.[68]
Following a donation in 2002, the Jewish Museum Berlin named a staircase after the Sackler family: the Sackler Staircase. In April 2019, the museum announced it would decline any new donations from the family, though it would not rename the staircase nor return the initial donation.[69]