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Museums Are Hilariously Battling Over Who Has The Best Bum Exhibit (39 Pics)
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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Perfumista Perfumista 6 years ago
If I had a butt like that I'd want it immortalized in marble too
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Dianna Siever 6 years ago (edited)
I was going to remark on how recently he ruled and how I couldn't imagine a modern ruler commissioning and possibly displaying a naked statue of himself... Then I thought of Putin and realized that I could imagine it after all.
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Kathy Baylis 6 years ago
My husband. (We got married at age 40, 19 years ago. He’s grown a belly since then, but has managed to keep his nice firm butt.)
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Kathy Baylis 6 years ago
Hubba! Hubba! Is there a picture inside of him after dropping the towel?
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Kathy Baylis 6 years ago (edited)
Betcha there’s another plesiosaur out there missing their honey’s hiney!
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Kathy Baylis 6 years ago (edited)
I believe this has been known to actually happen when waterskiing (usually after falling off them and being dragged for a bit until the driver of the boat realizes it).
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Mme de Poppadom 6 years ago
♫...When a girl walks in with an itty-bitty waist and a round thing in your face... ♫
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Kathy Baylis 6 years ago
Oddly, though the garden with the people encased in cement really creeps me out, the aesthetics of plastinated body tableau like these actually rather fascinate me. There are whole museums of these sculptures where some of the displays are downright beautiful (reference Gunther von Hagen, for instance). And before anyone gets their hackles up, people donate their bodies to the artists.
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Kathy Baylis 6 years ago
Um, looks more like a modern version of a medieval torture. They also look like they would come to life at night to choose people to replace them. I would avoid going into this garden at night. Avoid it like the damn plague. You’ve heard of “A Child’s Garden of Verses”? THIS would be my “Adult’s Garden of Nopes”!
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Queen Jackson. 6 years ago
Not a Disney post? Not a Instagram vs. reality post? Just people appreciating the arts? Hm.
Queen Jackson. 6 years ago
Not a Disney post? Not a Instagram vs. reality post? Just people appreciating the arts? Hm.
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