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 😁

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 😁

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 😁

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 😁

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

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 😁

Here is a nice statue. We thought you'd like it (because of the bum 😊) 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums 'Faucheur au Repos' (Reaper Resting), 1882, by Albert Darcq, from Lille Palais des Beaux Arts 😁

Diving into 2026 like this guy in 'Scene from the Tomb of the Diver, Paestum, Southern Italy, about 480-470 BC 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Happy New Year, all! 🍾🪩🥳

Happy NYE, everyone! ⌛🍾🎆🪩👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums We've had a fantastic 2025, posting Museum Bums every day on BlueSky and Instagram. Here are your top 9 favourite posts of the year!! You've really picked some corkers, well done 😁

When you buy fancy new boots and a matching hat for the NYE party, but absolutely no-one has even looked at them because Clive's a centaur now 😤 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums The Feast of Peleus, 1873, by Edward Burne-Jones, from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Thanks @dr-squiddy.bsky.social for sharing 😁

Including a horse in their country dancing routine divided the judges! 🪩👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums This is the Delville Wood Memorial, designed by Alfred Turner, after Herbert Baker, unveiled 1926, just outside the South African National Gallery. Thanks @thelacemakersnotebook for sharing 😁

Good morning. This is a PSA for those who only booked 3 days leave over Christmas: It is SUNDAY. Set your ALARM. Iron your SHIRTS. Sort out your PACKED LUNCH. Thank you. 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Small Assembly of Figures", 1951, Keith Vaughan, from the @tate.bsky.social 😁

Got some Christmas money burning a hole in your pocket? Spend it on books! Your brain will thank you 😁 #MuseumBums 👍🏛️🍑 Here's a link to buy ours, just, y'know, so you know it's there... 😇 www.gaystheword.co.uk/product-page...

Happy Boxing Day, folks! Here's "Boxer", 1942, by Richmond Barthé, from @metmuseum.org 😁 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Hahaaaa! Brilliant 😁 we fully support and endorse these mailings 🥰 and we hope you enjoy your new book! Extra Christmas pud for this child! 👍🏛️🍑

Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄 Today is the anniversary of the great George Michael's death, and this was the bumliest picture in his huge art collection! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Horst P Horst's "Male Nude (Knee)", 1952, displayed in "The George Michael Collection" by Christies in 2019 We miss you, George ❤️

"Jacob and the Angel", the preparatory sketch and the finished work, by Jacob Epstein, c1940 (both), from @tate.bsky.social 👍🏛️🍑🎄 #MuseumBums

Angus McBean was a successful theatre photographer from Wales. Every year, he would do a photo collage Christmas Card that always featured him and his boyfriend, David Ball, in surreal situations. Here they are "discovering a colossal nude in the desert", 1949, @metmuseum.org 😁👍🏛️🍑🎄 #MuseumBums

Whaaat?! It's festive! It's green and red! Christmas colours 😁❤️💚 #MuseumBums 👍🏛️🍑 "Nude, Fitzroy Street, No 1", 1916, by Matthew Smith, at @tate.bsky.social 😁

Good news, everyone! All the prayers and sacrifices to Apollo worked! The days get longer from here 🌞 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Chariot of the Sun" painted on the ceiling of the Camera del Sole e della Luna in 1526, by Giulio Romano, at the Palazzo Te, Mantua, Italy

You can tell it's real art because it's hung on a wall in a gold frame ✅✅ 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Etude de Fesses (Study of Buttocks), by Felix Vallotton, 1884, recently exhibited in "Rear View" (2023), at LGDR, New York

Yup. Still got it! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums A 2.7cm long Aphrodite on a greek blue chalcedony scaraboid, c 4th century BC, from a Christie's exhibition 😁

Darling...? Where did you say you got these new coasters from?? 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Fernando de la Rocque's "Multidão", 2022, from the Musee Ariana in Geneva Thanks James for sharing 😁

Oh my muses, you'll never guess what happens on p153! 😱👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums It's curl up with a good book under the blanket season. Ideally our book: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/muse... @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social 😁 Henri Gaudier-Brzeska's "Fallen Workman", 1912, from @tate.bsky.social

Wait a minute! This is a "Father Boa". Ducking autocorrect!! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums An Athlete Wrestling with a Python, 1877, by Sir Frederick Leighton, at @tate.bsky.social

A cute little hook-up happening on the roof of "Molly House", 2023, by Pablo Bronstein, at @tate.bsky.social 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

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 😁

It may have come to your attention that we wrote a book. It's great for storytime. It makes a really great gift. Thanks. 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums storysmithbooks.com/product/muse... @chroniclebooks.bsky.social

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 😁

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 😁

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 www.gaystheword.co.uk/product-page...

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 😁

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 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

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 🤍

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 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/muse... @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social

Pole dancing was a lot trickier back in the day 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "A Youth at a Stream", 1844, by John Henry Foley, from @metmuseum.org

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 😁

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

Bum Bum Bum 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Three Aphrodites in a row from @ArchMuseumofThessaloniki Thanks @poisonchallis.bsky.social for sharing 😁

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 😁

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 bertsbooks.co.uk/product/muse... 📚 @bertsbooks.bsky.social 😁

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 😁

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

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

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 😁

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

This painting thinks classical statues should be covered up! It's immoral!!! 🤣 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Apollino", 1st century AD, Rome, in the @uffizigalleries.bsky.social , but he used to live at the Medici villa!

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 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/muse... HS Tuke's "Gleaming Waters", 1910, at the @royalacademy.bsky.social 😁

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 😁