Museums get up to some very interesting and weird things on social media. The Yorkshire Museum launched a worldwide battle between curators on June 26 to see which museum has the very best behind (or derrière if you want to sound all fancy) in its collection. The Yorkshire Museum started the challenge off with a photo of a Roman marble statuette of an athlete who has a chunk missing from his bum.
Plenty of other museums took up the challenge and posted their own works of art. Lee Clark, the York Museums Trust communications manager told Bored Panda that the challenge is still ongoing and the winner still hasn’t been picked yet! Scroll down for our full chat with Lee, upvote your fave pics, and let us know in the comments below which museum’s work of art deserves to be the winner of the #BestMuseumBum challenge! Let the games… begin!
The Yorkshire Museum, which is in England, launches a #CURATORSBATTLE every Friday. When you’re done enjoying the works of art in this list, Bored Panda invites you to have a look through our previous post about museums battling over who has the creepiest exhibit. And if you think that this type of content is awesome, you can always support the York Museums Trust (check out the ‘Donate’ link).
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Lee told us that museums from all over the world have taken part and in the UK, BBC Radio Four and Five Live covered the story, alongside media outlets around the country (and the world). Meanwhile, the Yorkshire Museum’s post has had 65k engagements, with over 300k people having seen the original tweet.
“There have been some fantastic suggestions of great behinds, with some museums getting very creative!” Lee said.
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Image source: WallaceMuseum
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Image source: ZooLuki
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Image source: GrantMuseum
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Image source: paularcurtis
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Image source: AngleseyAbbeyNT
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Image source: Royal_Armouries
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Image source: Hosmeriana
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Image source: CiurlionisMus
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Image source: AshmoleanMuseum
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Image source: Carla_Ardis
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Image source: SMTrust
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Image source: OptimoPrincipi
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Image source: Isabellegachet
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Image source: TheBEFS
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Image source: YorkCastle
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Image source: southeastNT
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Image source: YorkArtGallery
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Image source: NTDyrhamPark
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Image source: CastleHowardEst
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Image source: NatSciNMS
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Image source: MaryRoseMuseum
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Image source: Azov_Museum
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Image source: ERMuseums
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Image source: LisaCoombs4
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Image source: capefearmuseum
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Image source: calamityjane65
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Image source: KariHanke
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Image source: MAntheaume
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Image source: ValenceHouse
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Image source: bristolmuseum
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Image source: WhippleMuseum
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Image source: MOASdaytona
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