Friday, August 1, 2025

 How deeeeeep does this go??  King Tut.....to NYC.....Tom Wayne.....my grandad? Dad was the dirc of SI.....Lost Symbol...1978............the MET opened it.....same year as King Tut came here to DC......i remember waiting in line with Dave, Nana and Pop for like 3 hrs.....West Gallery of art...


The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Sackler Families Announce Removal of the Family Name in Dedicated Galleries


(New York, December 9, 2021)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art and descendants of the late Dr. Mortimer Sackler and Dr. Raymond Sackler today announced that seven named exhibition spaces in the Museum, including the wing that houses the iconic Temple of Dendur, will no longer carry the Sackler name. The Museum and the families of Dr. Mortimer Sackler and Dr. Raymond Sackler have mutually agreed to take this action in order to allow The Met to further its core mission.

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