A fragment of an ancient stone sculpture who's laying on their side

Wuu2?
Just chilling
👍🍑🏛️ #MuseumBums

One of the artefacts at National Archaeological Museum of Athens 😁

A watercolour painting showing two nude youths slumbering on a riverbank

When someone asks what your plans are for the long Easter bank holiday weekend 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

John Singer Sargent's "Tommies Bathing", 1918, from @metmuseum.org 😁

Happy Easter! 🐣

A painting showing 5 figures in a public bath house. The central figure is nude and bending at the hips to drink or wash their hair in a bathtub. All the other figures are very keen to watch

Sir! *taps the "No Drinking Water Sexily" sign* Please respect the rules of the establishment! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"Showers in a Prague Sokol I", 1901, by Milos Jiránek, from the Prague National Gallery

Thanks @jamesisies for sharing 😁

The ankle of a white marble statue

After 9 years and 11 months of #MuseumBums, we thought we'd shake things up and announce that going forward we'll be #MuseumAnkles 👍🏛️🦶

Thank you for bearing with us while we surf this tricky transition 🙏

A sculpture showing two marble figures, one nude and one clothed. The one who's supposed to be the faun is the nude one, which is how we can tell there's no tail to be seen

Least convincing faun ever! He doesn't even have a tail! He's just some guy! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"Faun and Bacchante", 1837 by Boris Orlovsky, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg 😁

A statue of Bacchus holding grapes up to his head

When you wake up with grapes in your hair, but you didn't even have grapes yesterday?!? 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Bacchus, 1731, by Lambert Sigisbert Adam, Bode Museum 😁

Well, would you look at the time!! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

19th century clock of unknown origin, with a Venus figure crouching on top, from the V&A 😁

(Clocks go forward today 👍⏰➡️)

A poster for Dean Raymond Gooch's "Bottoms" solo show at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, in Sunderland

Get yourself to Sunderland in the next few months, go see Dean Raymond Gooch's "Bottoms" solo show at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art 😁👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

A simple line drawing of a figure sat with their arms up and fabric draped over their head. They could be pulling on or off a t-shirt, or they could be towel-drying their hair

When you dry your hair just a few moments longer so you can stay in Towelland where there are no emails or appraisals or spreadsheets at all 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Seated Nude, 1973, by Brett Whitely, from @tate.bsky.social 😁

A monochrome sketch showing multiple figures running, jumping, diving and swimming, with a steamship in the background

Bathers in the Hudson, 1941, by Reginald Marsh 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

From the Whitney Museum 😁

A birthday invitation to celebrate Museum Bums' 10th birthday, on Sunday 26th April with a picnic in Russell Square, trip to nearby Gay's The Word bookshop, and then an experience at the BM

HUMP DAY ANNOUNCEMENT 📢📢📢

Next month it'll be 10 years since we posted our first #MuseumBums over on Instagram (scroll back, it's true!)

So we're having a little get together 😁

Wanna come? 👍🏛️🍑🥳

A photo of a statue as part of a fountain showing a merfolk figure riding a giant fish (the giant fish's horse head is out of shot), with a big European palace in the background

"I *did* mention we might have to reconsider our steeds if we wish to attack the landfolk, sir" 👍🏛️🍑 #museumbums

The Neptune Fountain at Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, was built in 1776 by Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenber as part of modernisation by Empress Maria Theresa 😁

A US Marines Signal Corp recruitment poster showing two uniformed figures on a promontory, one waving a flag and the other laid down looking through binoculars. Their interleaved legs have a hint of romantic tension

Happy 152nd Birthday J.C. Leyenecker! Master of making public art that felt a little bit queer but you're not entirely sure how... 😁👍🏛️🍑 #museumbums

1917 US Marine Signal Corps recruitment poster, V&A

Find out more about JCL in Jack's upcoming book: Hotties in Art www.amazon.co.uk/Museum-Hotti...

A bronze statue of a figure holding up a fiery torch

In City Square, Leeds, there are eight statue lampholders, installed to celebrate Leeds becoming a city in 1899. They're colloquially known as "The Drury Dames", because they were made by Edward Alfred Briscoe Drury, in 1903 😁👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

A crop of a painting showing three dancing figures in diaphanous robes

It's finally starting to feel like Spring! Good news on the vernal equinox! 👍🏛️🍑💐 #MuseumBums

Here's the Three Graces in "La Primavera" (Spring) by Botticelli, c1470, at the @uffizigalleries.bsky.social, Florence 😁

Some tired-looking statues who look as if they're on the 5th alarm snooze, and really have to get up now, but physically can't because of the snoozes

Thank All The Gods It's Flumping Friday!! Are you all as exhausted as we are? 👍🏛️🍑 #museumbums

"Fallen Angel", 1889, by Waldo Storey, from Laing Art Gallery.

Thanks @mp-ashmore.bsky.social for sharing 😁

A white marble statue of a figure holding draped fabric loosely round their waist

The poet Sappho lived 630–570 BC on Lesbos. Her poems are powerful expressions of love and longing for women:

makes my panicked heart go fluttering in my chest, for the moment I catch sight of you there’s no speech left in me ❤️

"Sappho", William Theed, 1851, Royal Collection Trust 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

A sculpture showing two figures leant over in different directions, on their knees bowing their heads, with their bums in the air, like dolphins jumping out of the sea

The same sculpture but forefronting the other figure from a different angle

A twofer 👍🏛️🍑🍑 #MuseumBums

Rodin's "Le Poete et la Sirene", 1885, from The Burrell Collection @artukdotorg.bsky.social 😁

A photo of a cast of the famous statue from behind in a grand hall. The drape of Apollo's cloak makes it look like he's wrapped himself in his bath towel and gone for a wonder

Well, wouldn't you wander the halls wearing nothing but your bath towel if you lived in a house like this?? 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

The Apollo Belvedere cast from Syon House (original: c120 AD, cast: by Joseph Wilton c1761) 😁

Thanks @pinsent-tailoring.bsky.social for sharing 😁

An abstract painting of a scene with 4 muscley figures sat or stood on rocks, with one dipping their toe in the water. All in various states of undress and one towelling off as they must have finished their dip

The rowing team doing some team-building
#MuseumBums 👍🏛️🍑

The Bathers, by James Edward Davis, accessioned to @princetonupress.bsky.social in 1963

Thanks @queer_modernisms for sharing 😁

A stone sculpture of a figure laying on their side with their head resting on their elbow

"We Lying by the Seasand", by John Taulbut, 1995 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

It looks like it'd also make the most fancy doorstop 😁

A photo of a statue in an empty museum gallery because we got there first thing

When you're the first into the museum, and it's all legally yours for about 30 seconds until the next visitor arrives too 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Apollo, 1790, by Jean-Antoine Houdon, at the The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon 😁

A marble statue of a muscley figure sat, and bending to scoop delicious olives out of an amphora

It's obvs very impressive that this beautiful muscley figure is sculpted out of marble... But can you imagine if they were one solid block of cheddar... 🧀👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"Scaldis", 1804, by Jans Frans van Geel, from the KMSKA, Belgium

Thanks @ma-at.bsky.social for sharing 😁

An illustrated card showing a ballet dancer in flowing trousers that drape wonderfully

Unlike Timothee, we can find a lot to appreciate in ballet 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Souvenir card for Serge de Diaghileff's Ballet Russe, by Leon Bakst, c1924, from the @metmuseum.org 😁

We'll attempt to share one of our #MuseumBums 🍑 (the last couple of times Bluesky added a warning to the post)

'The Wrestlers, drawing from the antique' by Evelyn De Morgan on display in the @demorganfoundation.bsky.social galleries in Cannon Hall which re-opens on 28 March

A beautifully lit muscly statue, in a butt-first photo

The @royalacademy.bsky.social knows *exactly* how to light their plaster cast of the Farnese Hercules 😍
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

Cast created c1790, original sculpture c200 AD 😁

A photo of a figure on a sandy beach, about to hurl a frisbee

Max Dupain's "Discus Thrower", c1930s 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

After his iconic "Sunbaker" photo defined Australia for a generation, the State Library of New South Wales, Australia acquired c250,000 of Max Dupain's photos and negatives.

Tantalisingly, none of them are digitised. Trip to Australia, anyone?

A painting of a nude figure, sat and holding what is probably a sketchpad that was hanging around in the studio, but it's not impossible that the model is busy making their shopping list

🔸Milk
🔸Bread
🔸Mother's Day Card
🔸Something for dinner
🔸Squishy dishwasher tab things
🔸Little treat for me to say well done for going shopping
👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"Male Nude", c1805 Pelagio Palagi, from the @uffizigalleries.bsky.social , Florence

A monotone sepia illustration of a figure laying on their back with their hand behind their head

Happy Sunday! We hope you have nothing important to do today 😁👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

The Fallen Giant, 1925, Adolfo de Carolis

Tom Daley's six-exercise YouTube home workouts were a lifesaver during lockdown, but now we keep seeing his routine everywhere! This one's for your obliques 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

"Laugh of the Moon" 1945 by Dora Gordine, from the Dorich House Museum, London