List of things named after the Sackler family

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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]

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DedicationOrganisationLocationStatusReferences
Sackler Galleries Ashmolean Museum OxfordName removed in 2023 [21]
Sackler Keeper of Antiquities Ashmolean Museum OxfordName removed in 2023 [21]
Sackler Learning Officer Ashmolean Museum OxfordName removed in 2023 [21]
Raymond & Beverly Sackler Galleries of the Ancient Levant British Museum LondonName removed in 2022 [22]
Sackler Library City and Guilds of London Art School LondonName removed by 2023 [23] [24] [25]
Sackler Library Design Museum LondonName removed in 2022 [26]
Sackler Director Dulwich Picture Gallery LondonName removed in 2022 [27]
Sackler Centre for Arts Education Dulwich Picture Gallery LondonPresumed renamed [note 1] [27]
Sackler Garden Garden Museum LondonRenamed 'Courtyard Garden' [30] [31] [32]
Sackler Crossing Kew Gardens LondonName removed in 2022 [33] [34]
Sackler Institute for Translational Neurodevelopment King's College London LondonName removed in 2023 [35] [36] [37]
Sackler Study Room London Library LondonName removed in 2022 [38]
Sackler Hall Museum of London LondonPresumed closed [note 2] [40]
Sackler Room National Gallery LondonName removed in 2022 [41]
Sackler Pavilion National Theatre LondonIn use [30] [42]
Sackler Biodiversity Imaging Laboratory Natural History Museum LondonIn use [43]
Sackler Gallery Old Royal Naval College LondonUnclear [note 3] [45]
Sackler Space The Roundhouse LondonIn use [46]
Sackler Building Royal College of Art LondonRenamed 'Painting Building' in 2022 [47]
Sackler Trust Trainee Scheme Royal Court Theatre LondonScheme suspended in 2019 [30] [48]
Serpentine Sackler Gallery Serpentine Gallery LondonRenamed 'Serpentine North Gallery' in 2021 [49]
Sackler Studios Shakespeare's Globe LondonName removed in 2022 [50]
Sackler Octagon Gallery Tate Britain LondonName removed [51]
Sackler Escalator Tate Modern LondonName 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 CambridgeName removed 2022 [55]
Institute of Astronomy Sackler Lecture Theatre University of Cambridge CambridgePresumed removed [note 5] [55]
Raymond and Beverley Sackler Distinguished Lecture in Archaeology University of Cambridge CambridgeIn use [55]
Sackler Chair of the UCL Institute of Mental Health University College London LondonIn use [57] [58]
Sackler Library University of Oxford OxfordRenamed '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 OxfordName removed in 2023 [21]
Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science University of Sussex SussexRenamed 'Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science' in 2022 [60] [61] [62]
Sackler Courtyard Victoria & Albert Museum LondonName removed in 2022 [63]
Sackler Centre for Arts Education Victoria & Albert Museum LondonName removed in 2022 [63]
Sackler Trust plaque V&A Dundee DundeePlaque removed in 2023 [64] [65]
Sackler windows Westminster Abbey LondonIn use [66]

In 2023, Royal Museums Greenwich said they would removed Theresa Sackler's name from their list of 'major supporters'. [36]

France

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]

Germany

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]

China

Notes

  1. ↑ Although the Gallery did not make a formal announcement of any name change, the former Sackler Centre was opened in 2000, [28] matching the description of the 'Art Studio' on the Gallery's website. [29]
  2. ↑ The Museum of London closed in December 2022 in order to relocate to Smithfield Market for 2026. [39]
  3. ↑ Although the Old Royal Naval College has not made any formal announcement about the gallery, reference to it was removed from the College's website by November 2020. [44]
  4. ↑ In 2019, the Tate said it would not take any further Sackler donations, but that the family's name would not be removed from exisiting gifts. [52] In February 2022, Tate announced that the name would be removed. [51]
  5. ↑ As of 2023, the Institute of Astronomy website referred to the lecture theatre simply as the 'Hoyle Building Lecture Theatre'. [56]

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