No stone unturned in erasing Sackler at the British Museum

The British Museum’s woes pile up…. and the Sackler funding saga rolls on with the London museum set to take away an inscription bearing the household title from a stone lintel inside the museum. Final 12 months, George Osborne, the museum’s chairman, introduced that an settlement had been reached that “the Sackler title can be eliminated” (the title has turn out to be indelibly linked to the opioid epidemic that some family members profited from through their firm Purdue Pharma). A planning software was lately submitted to Camden Council, as required for a listed constructing: “20mm of current stone depth to be fastidiously eliminated” from the lintel. Appears to be like like even a reputation set in stone isn’t set in stone…