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Well as it’s National Insect Week, it would be rude not to share one of our impressive #insect ‘bums’! What about this male blowfly (Calliphoridae), Cynomya mortuorum? #FlyFriday #NIW2020 #CURATORBATTLE #BestMuseumBum pic.twitter.com/VTpQJczgJr
— Natural Sciences NMS (@NatSciNMS) June 26, 2020
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“You can look but you can’t touch it
If you touch it
I’m a start some drama.”This sentiment was sadly ignored in the case of this figure.
You see the shiny, flattened 🍑?
That’s because people couldn’t resist touching her hump (hump). 🙄#BestMuseumBum #CURATORBATTLE pic.twitter.com/7Pb0hZJRZI
— Museum of Oxford (@MuseumofOxford) June 26, 2020
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We don’t wanna be the butt of any jokes this #CURATORBATTLE, cause our entry is pants. Literally. 🩲
With no #BestMuseumBum, here’s the closest thing! Part of some 3,500 year old underpants, excavated in Thebes & made to protect your 🍑
Can you spot them on the tomb paintings? pic.twitter.com/FLsctrfqXg
— National Leather Collection (@museumofleather) June 26, 2020
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This bum? It’s not just any bum. This is the behind of the Egyptian god of fertility, Min, dating back to c. 3300 BC – a 5,000 year old bum. #CURATORBATTLE Photo courtesy of the brilliant @museumbums pic.twitter.com/DMWAhu1FbT
— Ashmolean Museum (@AshmoleanMuseum) June 26, 2020
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From the Huddersfield Art Gallery collection, we give you this painting by Henry Scott Tuke (1858-1929). It’s titled ‘The Blue Jacket’ because that’s obviously what the artist was focusing on… #BestMuseumBum #CURATORBATTLE pic.twitter.com/hmgBwjFvwV
— Hudds Art Gallery (@HuddsArtGallery) June 26, 2020
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#BestMuseumBum #CuratorBattle @YorkshireMuseum
Throughout her life, Meila Kairiūkštytė-Balkus was interested in the topic of femininity, which is reflected in her work “Elena I”. Her sculptures are naturalistic, seeking to convey real rather than idealized forms of a woman. pic.twitter.com/QJfmB9gg9z— M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art (@CiurlionisMus) July 1, 2020
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In honour of our new most popular tweet here are some of our other #BestMuseumBum(s) that were on our shortlist. 🍑 (a thread)
This cracker is from the #AberdeenBestiary, who doesn’t love a weaponised bum? (MS 24 f12r) 🐂💩 pic.twitter.com/bmjCprvMWt
— Aberdeen Uni Museums and Special Collections (@uoacollections) June 29, 2020
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But really, we have the greatest seeds bum!
It even produces palm trees. #CURATORBATTLE #BestMuseumBum #WINNER #seedbum #Lodoiceamaldivica pic.twitter.com/ETMtXvRUa9— Hortus Amsterdam (@HortusAmsterdam) June 29, 2020
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Our Arctic Wolf taxidermy has a very.. realistic bum.#BestMuseumBum? 😬 pic.twitter.com/sJ0geqELdS
— Brandon General Museum & Archives (@TheBGMA) June 26, 2020
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Now THIS is the #CuratorBattle we’ve been waiting for…
Say hello to our #BestMuseumBum courtesy of our anatomical model! What a lovely 🍑, and educational as well 🤓 pic.twitter.com/Z151HzKGzQ
— The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret (@OldOpTheatre) June 26, 2020