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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