The Sackler Wing

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The Sackler Wing was built in 1978 at The Met Fifth Avenue, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's flagship location in New York City. Designed by Kevin Roche and located to the north of the museum's original building, the wing was built to house the Temple of Dendur, brought from Egypt to New York. The wing was named after the Sackler family, which is associated with the Purdue Pharma company accused of fueling the opioid crisis in the US. In 2021 the name Sackler was removed from several elements of the Met Museum, but no substitute name for this wing was proposed. Maps of the Met Museum show in 2023 no name for this particular wing, while the related one situated at the south side, the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, remains well identified. The space within the Wing housing the temple is just Gallery 131.