Article 6EC98 V&A Dundee erases mentions of opioid-linked Sackler family

V&A Dundee erases mentions of opioid-linked Sackler family

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Mark Brown
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V&A has faced criticism for being slow to disassociate itself from benefactors with role in US opioid epidemic

The V&A Dundee has become the latest UK museum to remove a reference to the money it received from the Sackler family amid continuing anger over its central role in the opioid epidemic in the US.

The 80m museum, Scotland's first devoted to design, opened in 2018 and had among its donors the Sackler Trust, which gave 500,000.

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