There are organisations in this country who also have a great art collection of local art work, that have never been seen. With the amount of money invested in an amazing collection, these works should really be seen and appreciated.
The Royal Bank of Scotland was saved from bankruptcy and is 70% owned by the state.
According to the Telegraph:
"Colin Tweedy, the chairman of charity Arts & Business, said he “understood their embarrassment” about owning an art collection worth millions of pounds.
But he added: “The difficulty is that the collection seemed to have disappeared. I was worried it had been thrown away and damaged.
“My view is that this is something they should be proud of, instead of being embarrassed.
“It is not only a public duty [to exhibit the art] but also a business opportunity, because people will see some wonderful British work and realise it is owned by RBS.
Andrew Ellis, of the Public Catalogue Foundation, a charity which is cataloguing paintings held in public collections, said: “Any corporate collection has a responsibility to ensure that its works are shown to its staff and that maximum opportunities are taken to show the work to the public.
“That is doubly the case for a corporation which has fallen into public ownership.”
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