The Sacklers have endowed professorships and underwritten medical research. The Brooklyn-born brothers Arthur, Mortimer, and Raymond Sackler, all physicians, donated lavishly during their lifetimes to an astounding range of institutions, many of which today bear the family name: the Sackler Gallery, in Washington the Sackler Museum, at Harvard the Sackler Center for Arts Education, at the Guggenheim the Sackler Wing at the Louvre and Sackler institutes and facilities at Columbia, Oxford, and a dozen other universities. The space, which opened in 1978 and is known as the Sackler Wing, is also itself a monument, to one of America’s great philanthropic dynasties. The north wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a vast, airy enclosure featuring a banked wall of glass and the Temple of Dendur, a sandstone monument that was constructed beside the Nile two millennia ago and transported to the Met, brick by brick, as a gift from the Egyptian government.
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