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NYC’s Met Museum Scrubs Sackler Name From Galleries Over Opioid Scandal

‘PASSING THE TORCH’

The Sackler name will be yanked from seven exhibition spaces, including the atrium that houses the famed Temple of Dendur.

AJ McDougall
AJ McDougall 

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