Figures show the council owns 380,000 works of art, but 90% of it is hidden away.
One of the five Banksy pieces that the city council owns is The Grim Reaper, which is on display at M Shed
Pressure group the TaxPayers' Alliance is urging the authority to sell some of the collection to help balance its books. The number of art items and proportion on public display was revealed in a response to the TaxPayers' Alliances' Freedom Of Information request, which it sent to all 397 councils and resulted in a report by the organisation in May called 'Wasting Monet?'.
If it had, the city council would have been third, behind Manchester's £384m and Southampton with £190m - but ahead of fourth-placed Leeds which has a £110m art collection.The average local authority collection's is worth £8.7m, of which only 28% is on public display, with Bristol's collection valued far higher and its proportion on show much lower.
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