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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · Nov 11
Hello lots of lovely new BlueSky followers! 👋 Isn't it nice over here!

This festive season 🎄, give the gift of bums 😁👍🏛️🍑🎁

There's our #MuseumBums book! Our 2025 calendar! And our notecards!

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An open page of a book showing two different artworks with bums in The chapter title page of a book showing a large bright image with bums, and the start of a chapter of text A different double page spread showing sculpture and medieval painting, both with bums in
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When you're so hungry, rational thought goes out of the window 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Milo of Croton, a Greek athlete who died attacked by either a lion or a wolf. He couldn't escape because he'd got his finger stuck in a tree 🤔

By Pierre Puget in 1682, in Marseille, France
A statue showing a muscled figure with a lion biting their butt
January 27, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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When you're in Edinburgh, look up! This 6ft tall, gold-leafed "The Figure of Youth" right at the top of the Old College building was based on Edinburgh boxer and athlete, Anthony Hall. Sculpted in 1888, by John Hutchison 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
A zoomed in photo showing the gold figure A zoomed out photo showing the context of the gold figure on top of the dome of a grand Edinburgh building
January 26, 2026 at 7:23 AM
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Ohhh, it kinda looks like the gallery lighting is Zeus' thunderbolt... Kinda? ⚡
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Cast of a bronze original found in 1928 near a shipwreck that had sunk in c100BCE near a Greek island. This one's at the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 😁
A photo of the bronze statue of Zeus, holding his arm out. Above him is the strip of gallery lighting, with the perspective making it look as if he's holding the lighting in his outstretched hand
January 25, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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We count 8 visible bums! Can you see any more? 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"The virtues of matrimony expelling the vices and ills", Agnolo Bronzino, 1565, from the Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford 😁
A charcoal sketch showing the entire paper covered in a jumble of figures
January 24, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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For the 2024 Paris Olympics, Mathieu Forget took dynamic airborne photos of French Olympians in iconic Parisian locations 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Here's Paul Dubois' "Narcissus", 1867, doing his best to upstage Nikola Karabatic at Musee D'Orsay 😁
Mathieu Forget's portrait of Nikola Karabatic jumping with a ball in his hand. In the foreground is a bright white marble statue who's robe is in danger of slipping off
January 23, 2026 at 7:42 AM
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Brooklyn obviously found it a challenge to talk about the beautiful but difficult to photograph animal in the room 🐘👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"Amusing the Ladies", 1939, James Patrick, from the American National Gallery of Art, in DC
An artwork showing a clown failing to draw the attention of two circus-goers, who are watching the elephants instead
January 22, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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On cold, wet, rainy English mornings, we like to spirit ourselves back to the sunny, bright, warm Agora in Athens 🌞 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
A photo of a statue in an outside gallery. You can see bright sky and cypress trees in the background
January 21, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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Blue artworks are for life, not just for museum social media ccounts on Blue Monday! 👍🏛️💙 #MuseumBums

Yves Klein's "Blue Venus", c1961 from @metmuseum.org 😁
A statue of Venus with no arms or legs, but rendered in a rich, deep, signature blue
January 20, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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Mondays 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"Curled Nude on a Stool", by Euan Uglow, Ferens Art Gallery, 1982
A painting of a figure sat on a four-legged stool, but bent over double so their head is between their knees and their hands are on their feet. As if they've already been defeated just by the concept of Monday
January 19, 2026 at 7:35 AM
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When you've absolutely nailed right legs, but you haven't done the class on left legs or heads yet 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

James Daugherty's "Back of a Nude", 1916, from Whitney Museum of American Art 😁
A sketch of a nude from the back but the left leg is absent and the head is a very rough light sketch
January 18, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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Icarus werking those wings. If only he'd had a hot-glue gun and a whole load of setting spray 🤷‍♂️
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"Icarus", by Alfred Gilbert, 1882, from @tate.bsky.social
A bronze statuette of Icarus with tiny little wings barely covering him
January 17, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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Penny had found the best way to minimise getting paint and glue on her clothes while collaging 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseunBums

"500 Purrett 67", by Richard Purrett, 1967, from Pensacola Museum of Art @pensacolamuseum.bsky.social 😁
A print of a figure sat on a stool holding up something red against a backdrop of bright colours and small shapes. As if they're applying the red thing into the collage. There's a potplant I'm the foreground
January 16, 2026 at 7:27 AM
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When you get out of the gym shower, but you can't remember which locker your towel is in 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"Homme Nu. Académie", by Pierre-André Farcy, 1899, from Musee de Grenoble 😁

Thanks @antonio_explores for sharing
A painting of a standing life model from behind, with other artists in the background. But it looks like the model is slightly lost
January 15, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Drawings for Reliefs II, by Michael Snowden, from the National Galleries of Scotland 😁
A charcoal line drawing of a figure stood in contropposto, with hand on hip and the other hand holding their chin, as if in the deepest thought pose they could possibly pose
January 14, 2026 at 7:20 AM
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Do you remember when it was warm and sunny? Let's have more of that soon please 🌞
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Paul Cézanne's "The Bathers", 1890, from @museeorsay.bsky.social 😁
An idyllic summer scene showing 10 figures in or around a pool or river, with green trees and blue skies, and white underwear
January 13, 2026 at 7:19 AM
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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska double-barrelled his name to include his love, Sophia Brzeska, in c1910. More than a century before any Beckhams are praised for being "groundbreaking" for it 🙄
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

H G-B's "Standing Female Nude, Hands on Hips", 1913, from @tate.bsky.social
A faint outline sketch of Gaudier-Brzeska's signature chunky figure, looking over their shoulder to make eye contact with the viewer
January 12, 2026 at 7:35 AM
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When you've just finished popping all their back zits, but now you can't look each other in the eye for a while 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"Wall painting showing two lovers in bed, from the House of L. Caecilius Jucundus in Pompeii", c50AD, Naples National Archaeological Museum

Thanks @60museum for sharing 😁
A wall painting showing two figures sharing a chaise longue, one sat up straight and the other laid down behind them, both looking in the same direction so they're not looking at each other
January 11, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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We've been team @yermatty.bsky.social #thetraitors for years!

Back in 2021 he visited @royalacademyarts.bsky.social and made friends with this Antony Gormley 😁👍🏛️🍑 #museumbums
A photo of a person doing a headstand next to a metal Antony Gormley sculpture of a figure stood right way up, in an art gallery with white walls and a parquet floor
January 10, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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In 1902, Gustav Klimt took part in "The Beethoven Exhibition" interpreting B's music in art, in Vienna. Klimt's huge 21m long mural ends with this scene, depicting the verse:
"Joy, thy purest spark divine. This kiss to all the world!" 😁

👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Thanks @matsubasho.bsky.social for sharing
A gold mural showing a couple embracing between two trees, standing in water, with the sun and moon overhead and a border of blissed angels
January 9, 2026 at 7:23 AM
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See? I told you! If you go skinny dipping in a pool in California, David Hockney will magically appear! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"California", 1987 (copied from the 1965 original), by David Hockney, from @lacma.org 😁
A painting showing two figures lounging face down on inflatables in a pool
January 8, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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When you're idly swimming about your day, doing your to-do list, and a Triton of Neptune's retinue sits on you! And blows his godsdamn conch! 😱🐟
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"Triton Blowing a Conch Shell", by Adriaen de Vries, c1615, @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

Thanks @antinbath.bsky.social for sharing 😁
A bronze statue, originally part of an ornate fountain, showing a figure sat, holding a conch shell up to blow through. They're sat directly on a startled looking fish
January 7, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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When you've just joined the gym, and you're not sure what you're doing, but some other guy is doing this, so you do it too 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Svend Rathsack's "The Man", Copenhagen Statens Museum for Kunst 😁
A photo of a black sculpture of a figure, with both their arms flexed, like they're holding a barbell
January 6, 2026 at 7:37 AM
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This memorial was erected outside the Victoria Rooms in Bristol, in 1905, sculpted by Onslow Whiting. It commemorates the 260 soldiers from the Gloucestershire Regiment who died during the Boer War in South Africa. 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Thanks @commoner.bsky.social for sharing 😁
A close up photo of a bronze statue of a soldier
January 5, 2026 at 7:41 AM
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Local urban legend says (so probably not true but a fun story) the Freiburg Münster's 13th century stonemasons were fired by the Mayor, but told to finish the gargoyles before they left, so this one is pointing towards Freiburg City Hall 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
A photo of a stonecarving water spout on the corner of a church tower. The spout is in the shape of a nude figure holding onto the tower with hands and feet, so the end of the spout is their bum. In this wintery picture there's an icicle hanging out of the opening
January 4, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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Before TV and the internet, people made their own entertainment 🤨
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

This is an 18th century painted piece of silk, from the Museum of Burgundian Life, in Dijon, France 😁
A square of green silk with a painted scene showing two jesters, one in a handstand, so they're both peering through each other's legs, above their bare bottoms
January 3, 2026 at 9:52 AM