Hans Borrebach was a Dutch comics artist and advertising illustrator, with works in the Rotterdam City Archives, Anne Frank House, and the Rijksmuseum 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums This sketch from @rijksmuseum.bsky.social is called "Naked torso and naked lower back and buttocks of a man", c1961

One of our favourite #MuseumBums events: facilitating themed life drawing classes at @walkerartgallery.bsky.social in Liverpool, with the gorgeous @kiwiethebuffetslayer model 😁👍🏛️🍑🎨 (If you're a museum and looking for events in 2026, get in touch 😁👍)

Here's a tiny little blue guy with their bum out for you 💙 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "One figure of a male", c305 BCE, from @brooklynmuseum.org from their "Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art" (which feels like a very broad category)

Oooh, you can practically hear the drums, feel the heat, hear the clucking and neighing 😁🥵🥰 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Kerry James Marshall's "Six for One", 2024, as part of "Everyday Life as Epic History" exhibition at the @royalacademyarts.bsky.social Thanks @windowsausage for sharing 😁

Last Friday, Miles Greenberg performed their epic durational artwork "The Flaying of Marsyas", at @stedelijkmuseum.bsky.social in Holland from 11am-6pm 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Marsyas was the most talented mortal musician in Ancient Greece, who dared to challenge Apollo, the god of music (and lost...)

Could the yellow gentleman please take their thigh off my shoulder? I'm getting cramp 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Contain" by Fred Hatt, 2011, exhibited at Artspace 109 in Brooklyn, New York, in 2013 Thanks @neilfleischer.bsky.social (the model!) for sharing 😁

When your calendar clearly shows "Do Not Disturb" from 8am-2am but somehow someone still comes to ask you a stupid question 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Gerda Wegener's "Reclining Nude (Lili Elbe)" 1929 😁

One of our all-time favourites (for many obvious reasons 😍, and not least because it's the first bronze statue of a manual labourer), William Hamo Thornycroft's "The Mower", 1882-1884, at Liverpool's @walkerartgallery.bsky.social 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Here is a lovely etching of a bum 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums It is by Herman Löwenstam, and it was created in 1859. It's in the collections at the @rijksmuseum.bsky.social 😁

When you were into Harry Styles, but now you're a Benson Boone fan, so your poster just needs a little edit... 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums This text used to read "Megakles kalos" (Megakles is really hot), but it was changed to read "Glauketes kalos" 😳 500 BCE votive plaque at the Acropolis Museum

Today's Museum Bum comes to you live from the Acropolis Museum in Athens (because our achey legs couldn't make it up to the actual Parthenon 🤣) 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums The Kritios Boy, after 480BCE, from the Acropolis 😉

Don't expect a Museum Bum any time soon today, we're a bit busy!🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🇬🇷 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums #AthensMarathon

Remember, thumbs up and smile when you see a camera ☺️ 👍🏛️🍑🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🇬🇷 #MuseumBums Relief of a helmeted runner from Athens, c500 BCE, from @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social

We will be very happy to see this bronze discobolos, as they signify the last few hundred metres of the Athens Marathon before the finish line at the Panathenaic Stadium 😁👍🏛️🍑🇬🇷🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️ #MuseumBums Discobolos by Kostas Dimitriadis, 1924, winning the gold Olympic medal for sculpture in the same year!

A 9am Athens Marathon starting pistol means a 5am coach from Athens to Marathon, so this will be us on Sunday morning! 🫩 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Sir Frederick Leighton's "The Sluggard" 1885, from the @royalacademy.bsky.social 😁

If you spin this vase really fast you can see this runner run into a post 😂👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Panathenaic Prize Amphora, attributed to the Berlin Painter, c500 BCE, exhibited at Princeton Art Museum in 2017 😁

Two runners excavated from the Villa Papyri in Pompeii in 1754. They're from 1st C BCE, and thought to be Roman replicas of lost ancient greek replicas 👍🏛️🍑🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️ #MuseumBums

This'll be us on Sunday! Jack and Mark from #MuseumBums are running the Athens Marathon! (they'll be wearing clothes, don't worry)! 👍🏛️🍑 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️ Panathenaic prize-amphora showing runners, c530BCE, attributed to The Euphiletos Painter, from @britishmuseum.bsky.social

When you've got places to be, and you can't let things like physics or solid objects slow you down 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Forme uniche della continuità nello spazio", 1913, by Umberto Boccioni, from Museo del novecento Milan. Thanks @msbennet for sharing 😁

When the Hallowe'en party costume you spent weeks making keeps getting caught on door handles 😭 👍🏛️🎃 #MuseumBums Mercury at the Rockefeller Centre, above the entrance of 620 Fifth Avenue, designed by Lee Lawrie and Leon V Salon, 1931-1940

Skeleton costumes for Hallowe'en? Groundbreaking. 👍🏛️🎃 #MuseumBums Thanks @camer0nf0ster for sharing this teeny weeny artwork from @rijksmuseum.bsky.social (which we can't find on their catalogue so don't know much about! 🤣)

High Five!... Oh... Sorry 😳 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Marble statue from the terrace of the Olympeieon, in Athens, now in the Athens Archaeological Museum 😁

When David Harbour asks his PR company "How are things are going?" 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Satan devouring sinners in the Universal Judgement", 13th Century, probably by Coppo di Marcovaldo, in the Baptistry of San Giovanni, Florence (Love you, Lily ❤️)

I definitely put my lionskin cloak down somewhere over here... Maybe on a treestump? 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums The Borghese Faun (repro), from @pennmuseum.bsky.social in Philadelphia, USA. Cast in 1903 by J. Chiurazzi Thanks @theancientgeeko.bsky.social for sharing 😁

Ma'am, please don't climb on the jug. Apart from anything else, your backwards knees are causing alarm 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums This is a Cantagalli pottery ewer, from Hughenden @nationaltrust.org.uk (📷 Thomas Boggis)

So it's 7:43, right? But the clock on the oven says 9:43? The phone says 8:43, but did I disable the automatic change settings? Let's all stay in bed until someone works out what time it is 🤔 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Il Riposo, 1881, by Dionisio Cortés Mesa

Group 7 when it's time to present the group presentations 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Roman Battle against Barbarians" detail, Bertoldo di Giovanni, c1475, from the Sala Delle Asse, Piazza Castello, Milan. Thanks @st_emiliano for sharing 😁

It's fair to say we would need more than a flimsy ladder if we ever went shopping for our favourites at the Louvre... 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums This is Cupid and Psyche, by Antonio Canova, 1787 😁 (and we've got the perfect space in Museum Bums HQ living room for it ... 🤔)

Nigel, we know you ate all the brie last night. We had artist, Luis Egidio Meléndez watching the fridge! The evidence he presented is undeniable. 👍🏛️🍑🧀 #MuseumBums LE Meléndez' "Self portrait with academic drawing", 1746, from the Louvre 😁

We've decided to add a new piece to Chess: the MuseumBum. You roll a D20 and that's how many spaces it can move in any direction 😁 #MuseumBums 👍🏛️🍑 ♟️ Thanks @sheena-mck.bsky.social and @rchdnv.bsky.social for sharing this view from Mount Stewart in County Down, Northern Ireland 😁

Can someone check in on ol' Fil? His self portraits have gone weird 🤔 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Filippo Balbi's "Autitritatto", 1873, from the Palazzo Pitti, Florence 🇮🇹

What a relief!!! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Venus and Adonis, mid-1700s, by Georg Raphael Donner, Venus and Adonis, from Cleveland Art Museum 😁

This new coffee table is a great conversation starter, but it's difficult to find somewhere to put your coffee 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Villa Fontanelle, Lake Como by Helmut Newton, 1996. Thanks @domhnallnolan.bsky.social for sharing 😁

When there was so much red wine last night that daylight is painful 🍷👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Sarah Jane McCarthy's artwork from their recent exhibition at Kit Form, in Jamaica Street, Bristol 😁

#MuseumBums loves the story of the Lucifer Statues of Liége Cathedral 👍🏛️🍑 ~1848, Josef Geef was tasked to sculpt Lucifer. Unfortunately Lucifer was too sexy for the church. Without paying him, they commissioned his brother to replace it, so Guillaume Geef made his Lucifer *even* sexier 😁

When you're yoga-ing along happily and suddenly FOOTCRAMPFOOTCRAMPFOOTCRAMP 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums The Wounded Philoctetes, by Nicolai Abildgaard, 1775, at the National Gallery of Denmark 😁

Thinking of starting a new #MuseumBums subscription service #MuseumPits... Who's in? 👍🏛️💪 Dancing Satyr by Antonio Frilli, from the @uffizigalleries.bsky.social, Florence 🇮🇹 👍🏛️🍑

Us looking at bums in museums 😁 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums A photo from the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, which as you can imagine is absolutely crammed full of #MuseumBums! 😁

Stupid autocorrect. This isn't the first time we've typed "William Von Gloeden" and the phone thinks it knows better 🙄

Dreaming of an idyllic Mediterranean break this drizzly October Monday? 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Three nudes" by Wilhelm Von Golden, c1900, from the V&A collections 😁

Steve had passed his Jet Boot Theory test first time... The practical might take a few more swings though... 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Leaping Man", 2014, by Clare Bigger, at Fen Street roundabout, Milton Keynes 😁

We have it on good authority that a) our book is on display in the window of @gayonwye.bsky.social 🥰🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📚 and b) a certain Traitor-y Chatty Man might have picked up a copy from there 😱🤩😍

Just keep hitting snooze, you're fine 👍 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums William Etty's "Reclining Woman", c1825, from @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 😁

The Farnese Antinous ❤️ 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Sculpted between 130 and 137 CE, from the Naples Archaeological Museum

Stomping to stupid work in the stupid drizzle because stupid Google said you wouldn't need your stupid umbrella 😤 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums A 5th c BCE Greek bronze hoppolite from National Archaeological Museum Athens 😁

You know summer's over when it's pitch black on your middle-of-the-night trip to the loo 😳👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Edward Hopper's "Standing Male, from Rear" from the Whitney Museum of American Art 😁

Did you lot know we have a #MuseumBums book? 👍🏛️🍑📕 Ok, that was an easy one, but did you know there's a #TraditionalChinese language edition?? How cool is that?! Can't read Chinese? Don't worry: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/muse...

There are scant few #MuseumBums at Sambourne House, but we spied this little terracotta chappy on the drawing room mantelpiece, with a bonus peach on the wallpaper to boot! 😁👍🏛️🍑 If you're going to SH, go to their sibling museum Leighton House after (there are millions of #MuseumBums there 😋)

This guy has been mooning Kensington and Hyde Park since 1851 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums The mosaic around the outside of the @royalalberthall.bsky.social was designed in 1851 by Major General Scott, and depicts human accomplishments in arts and letters through history 😁

Help, help! I'm trapped in a *reads the museum panel* Cameo; onyx; irregular form; imperfect; mounted in enamelled gold pendant frame set with single garnet, 16th century, in an early 17th century frame! Heeeeeeeeelp! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums From the British Museum 😊