The art collection owned by the city of Detroit is estimated to be worth billions of dollars.  For creditors and retirees, the money from a sale of the city’s art collection would go a long way toward paying off the city’s $18 million of debt.  However, the suggestion of selling the city’s art collection has angered many and raised serious issues about what should be sold when a city files bankruptcy.  As groups and individuals from all over the United States work toward a way to save the art collection, its remains to be seen whether the citizens of Detroit will still have an impressive art collection once the bankruptcy case is over.

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