New National Musuem of Art for Wales.

The Guardian on Friday 8 July as well as other newspapers reported the following major Arts story: Complete Welsh collection goes on display in National Museum of Art- Ten-year project opens with masters on show and special exhibition including work by Freud, Hockney and Whiteread

• guardian.co.uk, Friday 8 July 2011 17.40 BST

Unlliw, an installation by Carwyn Evans, sits alongside a 19th-century landscape at the National Museum of Art in Cardiff. Photograph: Gareth Phillips for the Guardian.
Familiar favourites by Renoir, Cézanne and Monet are there, but also freshly minted pieces such a jagged stone circle created by Richard Long that two weeks ago was nothing more than a pile of rejected hunks of slate in a north Wales quarry. All are being brought together at the National Museum of Art, which opens on Saturday at the National Museum Cardiff. For the first time the full range of Wales's art collection, from Tudor portraits to esoteric pieces of contemporary art, can be seen under one roof. The 10-year project, costing £6.5m, has involved the refurbishment of old galleries and the creation of six new spaces. Pieces that have long languished in storerooms have been hauled out and paintings and sculptures that were jammed together have been given more room. The Campaign for English Independence congratulates the Welsh nation on the opening of its new National Museum of Art and notes that it is well overdue as Scotland has had its equivalent National Gallery of Scotland since 24 March 1859.  Scotland has also had its own very own Scottish National Portrait Gallery since 1889. The Campaign for English Independence notes that although England provides some 84% of the total population of the UK, the state of its own national instiutions for the Arts is as follows:
• National Library - there isn't one
• National Gallery - there isn't one
• National Museum - there isn't one 
• National Portrait Gallery - and there isn't one of those either.
In contrast, Scotland has the full set and it's now getting much for the same for Wales and Northern Ireland too. Once again, we see the work of the British elites building up national institutions in Sotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (often at English expense for the latter two) and to marginalise the English nation. And we know why this is happening too, don't we?