BLOOD MONEY REJECTED –
Oct. 1, 2022 – The Victoria and Albert Museum has bowed to growing pressure to rename key areas of its Kensington site, the Observer has learned, as it drops controversial ties with the Sackler family, benefactors descended from the American makers of addictive opioid prescription drugs.
This weekend the signs that directed V&A visitors to the Sackler Centre for Arts Education, and to the £2m tiled “Sackler Courtyard” on Exhibition Road, have gone, as the museum finally jettisons its damaging association with the opioid drug market.
The move marks another victory for the campaign group Sackler Pain, which staged a dramatic public protest at the gallery in November 2019.
