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Museum Bums
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Callipygian statues 👍🏛🍑

'Cheeky, Witty, Funny' - The Bookseller;
'Crude' - Daily Express 🤣

(curated by @thehistoryboy.bsky.social & @jackshoulder.bsky.social)

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When you can see the bus driver thinking about closing the door and pulling off, but you're still 200m away! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Jeté, 1975 by Enzo Plazotta, based on the dancer, David Wall, on Millbank just next to @tate.bsky.social Britain 😁
A photo of a sculpture of a ballet dancer jumping into splits, but it looks like they're running as fast as they possibly can
December 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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It may have come to your attention that we wrote a book. It's great for storytime. It makes a really great gift. Thanks.
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A photo of the Museum Bums boys sat on the floor of museum reading a copy of Museum Bums: A Cheeky Look at Butts in Art in front of a particularly bum-y statue
December 13, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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What do you mean "there's still another 13 days to go??" Work?!? No, I'm not going there, I'll just stay here til Christmas 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"Nude Study Of A Reclining Woman", 1849, William Etty, from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 😁
A painting of a figure reclining on a white surface, leaning on a brown box, with a red background behind them
December 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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When you're at the office Christmas party, and your manager bets you you can't limbo under your desk 👍🏛️🍑🎄 #MuseumBums

One of John Flaxman's many "Study of a male nude"s, nd, this one is at @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social and also @artukdotorg.bsky.social 😁
A sketch of a nude figure leaning back and putting their hand down behind them
December 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Hey Hads! Look, I'm on p35! They've really captured my good side 👍🏛️🍑

You too can see one of the many flattering angles of Antinous, boyfriend of Roman Emperor Hadrian (yes, the one with the wall) in #MuseumBums: A Cheeky Look at Butts in Art

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A copy of Museum Bums being held up in front of a bust of the god Antinous, who's been placed lovingly next to his paramour, a bust of Emperor Hadrian in the British Museum
December 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Sometimes, when Matthew wasn't concentrating, his ear would start floating away 👍🏛️🍑👂🏻 #MuseumBums

Henry Fuselli's "Seated Male Nude: Anatomical Study (with ear detail)", c1770, from the @vamuseum.bsky.social 😁
An Anatomical sketch of a seated figure, above their head is a second attempt at getting ears right, but it looks like a little ear-shaped fairy floating above their shoulder
December 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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One of our fav chapters in " #MuseumBums: A Cheeky Look at Butts in Art" lets you wander museums thinking "that vase is a bum, that chair is a bum, those peaches are *undeniably* bums!" Suddenly you're surrounded! 👍🏛️🍑

Dish with fencai peaches, 1723, Jiangxi Province, now @britishmuseum.bsky.social
A photo of a dish with peaches on it in a museum display cabinet, and a book open to the chapter "When is a bum not a bum?" in the foreground A close up of the peach decoration on the dish, showing how bum-like they are
December 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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A river god with flowing robes becoming flowing water. This meticulous detail from the pediment would only ever have been known by the gods if the Parthenon in Athens had stayed intact. Now even mortals can see it at @britishmuseum.bsky.social 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
A photo of a statue of a prone figure with flowing robes
December 7, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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The master sculptor, Antonio Canova was so genius, he picked out marble for his works that was 2026's Pantone #ColourofTheYear, hundreds of years in advance! Bravissimo! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Here's his "Cupid and Psyche" from @museelouvre.bsky.social, 1787, and Pantone's "Cloud Dancer" colour 🤍
A screenshot of Pantone's marble-hued colour of the year
December 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Still not got a clue what to get for your Secret Santa? Does your colleague have a bum and live within 100 miles of a museum? Have we got the perfect solution for you! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

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An open copy of Museum Bums showing an interesting range of bums from museums An open copy of Museum Bums showing an interesting range of bums from museums
December 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Pole dancing was a lot trickier back in the day 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"A Youth at a Stream", 1844, by John Henry Foley, from @metmuseum.org
A bronze statuette of a figure holding onto a tall tree trunk as they dip their toe in a stream
December 4, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Aaaaaaah!! Aaaaaaaah!!! There's a human on me!! Get it off Get it off Get it off Get it off Get it off Get it off Get it off Get it off! It's in my haaaaaaaair! Aaaaaaaaah!! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Part of "Are you a living thing that is dying...?", by Emma Talbot, currently at @arnolfiniarts.bsky.social 😁
A painting on fabric showing a figure lying on the back of a brightly coloured moth
December 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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All the best Museum shops stock our Museum Bums giftcards 👍🏛️🍑💌 shop.ashmolean.org/products/mus... @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social

Send them to your lovers, your haters, your lawyers, your horticulturalists, your lemurs, your hedgehogs... Or just your mates, we're not judging 🧐 #MuseumBums
A screenshot of a museum gift shop website showing our gift cards in stock
December 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Bum Bum Bum 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Three Aphrodites in a row from @ArchMuseumofThessaloniki

Thanks @poisonchallis.bsky.social for sharing 😁
A photo showing three stone statues in glass cases, all depicting Aphrodite, from behind
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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You know you've booked a classy resort when the seagulls are asking for a wine-pairing for the pomme frites 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"Hebe with Jupiter in the guise of an eagle", 1820, by Gustav-Adolphe Diez, from @rijksmuseum.bsky.social 😁
A painting showing Hebe holding up a gold goblet and eagle Jupiter swooping down for a drink, like how seagulls steal your chips
November 30, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Black Friday Weekend Deal! Buy our book from an indy bookstore and get a free warm fuzzy feeling for being a good person with every purchase 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

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A pile of Museum Bums books
November 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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The shopping list got lost hours ago, you can only find the brandy kind of butter, you've given up on gifts for unliked relatives, *but* you managed to win a garland tug of war at the checkouts! 👍🏛️🍑🎄 #MuseumBums #BlackFriday

From the Achilles-Penthesilea sarcophagus in the Vatican Museum c230 AD 😁
A classical battle scene writ in marble relief, with lots of chaos and swords and horses
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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500 points if they can put some spin on it and get all three walkers while missing the car 🤣👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"Der Ballwerfer", 1907, by Richard Daniel Fabricius, outside the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
A statue of a figure getting ready to throw a ball, but it's snowing so it looks like a snowball. They're positioned facing down an avenue of trees and in the distance are three visible pedestrians, and a car
November 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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We've had a few monochrome sketches in a row, so here's some bright, colourful, camp dopamine hits from the film "Pink Narcissus", by James Bidgood, 1963, screened at the Hammer Museum at UCLA in March 2025 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
A pink and purple sparkly background with a nude figure in front, shot at a low angle so their bum is the main focus A photo of a figure in a tight vest and trousers standing in front of 6 ornate mirrors all reflecting them at different angles
November 26, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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It took an embarrassingly long time for the lost friends to realise all three were looking at different maps 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

James Edward Davis's sketches, presented by Princeton University Museum of Art. Thanks @queer_modernisms for sharing 😁
A pencil sketch showing three figures all sat or laid down looking at folded pages
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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After about eight mythical beasts and forces of nature, the gods started losing inspiration for Hercules' trials...

"Hercules moving a rock", 1759, Richard Cooper (after Raphael), from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums
A sketch in pencil on paper of a figure wearing only a cape bracing against a tall rock
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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This painting thinks classical statues should be covered up! It's immoral!!! 🤣
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"Apollino", 1st century AD, Rome, in the @uffizigalleries.bsky.social , but he used to live at the Medici villa!
A statue in a gallery with a painting of a horrified figure in the background
November 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Fed up with the wet cold dark already? Get yourself a copy of "Museum Bums" and dive into our Beach Bums chapter for an escape to the height of summer (and remember your suncream!) 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

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HS Tuke's "Gleaming Waters", 1910, at the @royalacademy.bsky.social 😁
A painting of people playing at the beach in various states of dress
November 22, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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John Singer Sargent met his muse, Thomas McKellar when TM was working as a hotel elevator operator. TM became "The Boston Apollo", posing for many of JSS' classical characters 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

This is JSS' Study for Eros and Psyche for the Rotunda of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1916–1921 😁
A sketch showing the feet to shoulders of a nude figure, but feet in the air as if the figure is doing a handstand
November 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Hans Borrebach was a Dutch comics artist and advertising illustrator, with works in the Rotterdam City Archives, Anne Frank House, and the Rijksmuseum
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This sketch from @rijksmuseum.bsky.social is called "Naked torso and naked lower back and buttocks of a man", c1961
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM