A British museum asks the world's curators to post the best museum butts

by Redazione , published on 17/07/2020
Categories: News / Disclaimer
Bizarre challenge from the Yorkshire Museum, which on the Web is asking museum masons around the world to post the... best museum buttocks.

At the Yorkshire Museum in York, England, the days are probably very long, and so the museum has decided to issue bizarre challenges to the active online museum curatorial community during quarantine. They call them #CuratorBattle, “battle of the curators,” and they are evidently very proud of it, as they introduce themselves on Twitter as “the creators of #CuratorBattle” in their official bio. For the past few weeks, they have been asking curators around the world to post images of the scariest or wittiest objects, or those of fakes in their collections, on the web. In late June, the Yorkshire Museum issued the most curious challenge: “Best Museum Bum” (or, for a fitting translation, the “best museum butts”).

Compassionate art historians working in museums around the world were therefore asked to flood the Web with images of the best buttocks in their institution’s collections. Yorkshire started with a Roman statue of an athlete, which was a big hit: 2,300 likes on Twitter and a thousand people who responded to the challenge directly below the original post, plus all those who retweeted and are now counting.

In short, game for bored and culturally uninteresting museum officials, or a different way to tell the story of museum collections? The question is open... ! Below is a selection of posts arrived on twitter around the #BestMuseumBum challenge.











A British museum asks the world's curators to post the best museum butts
A British museum asks the world's curators to post the best museum butts


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