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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 20h

When you're *almost* certain you parked on the 5th floor of the multistorey carpark today, right?? 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Model for the Fountain of the Moor, 1653, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, at Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, America 😁

A statue of a figure, in a concrete art gallery with strip lighting

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Here is a bum 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Reclining Nude - Back View", 1945, by James McBey, from Aberdeen Art Gallery and @artukdotorg.bsky.social 😁

An ink line-drawing of a reclining nude figure on a pillow

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

*Charleston, not Charterhouse! 😱

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bathers by the Pond, 1920, by Duncan Grant, from Pallant House Gallery 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums This is probably the pond on the Charterhouse estate in East Sussex, where Grant and Vanessa Bell settled along with various companions and friends. How modern! 😁

A painting showing a group of figures lounging on the bank of a pond wearing very little, in the background is a boat with one figure sat inside and another climbing in from the water

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Michelangelo was such a visionary - he illustrated getting a song stuck in your head centuries before Heart Radio 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Il Sogno (The Dream), by Michelangelo, c1533, from the Courtauld Gallery 😁

A sketch on paper of a figure with an angel blowing a dream into their head

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Boyfriends leaving the Morton Street Pier, NYC", 1981, by Stanley Stellar 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums We just really love this image 😁 Stanley Stellar: The Piers at Kapp Kapp Jan – Feb, 2022

A photo of two figures in tight t-shirts, short shorts and high white socks, walking in step towards an urban scene

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When you can't find your glasses so you're just hoping the shapes and colours are your friends and colleagues 🤷‍♂️ 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Badeliv", 1934, by Hans Øllgard, from the Oluf Høst Museet in Denmark

A surrealist painting showing a bathing scene

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We've all got that friend we'd be entirely unsurprised to get a call for help from because they'd found themselves naked with their knee stuck in a tree 🙄 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "The Milon of Crotone", c1840, possibly Stephani Vignes, in Château de Loubens-Lauragais, France

A painting showing a nude figure splitting a standing tree trunk with their knee

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you for your order 😁🥰

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Have you started thinking about Christmas gifts yet? Why? Oh... No reason, no reason... Just gonna leave these here *leaves images right here* 😉 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums 💙🩷 #HottiesinArt uk.bookshop.org/p/books/muse... bookshop.org/p/books/muse...

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This wax "ecorché" ("flayed figure") from 1760 was used for anatomy lectures in the Royal Art Academy in Glasgow. It was based on models and illustrations from their medical school neighbours 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums This one's in the Hunterian in Glasgow 😁

A photo of a small wax figure showing red musculature as if they have had their skin flayed off. It's displayed with a mirror behind so you can see the back and bum too

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That's a lot of unlacing to do when Stephen realises he forgot to put his trousers on... 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Stephen" 1996, by John Wood, exhibited this summer at Gallery Celine, Glasgow 😁

A black and white photo of a figure in a black leather jacket, black leather boots, and white boxers, bends at the waist to tie their left boot

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Has anyone curated a collection of jockstraps in art? Maybe we'll be the first 🤔 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Untitled", 1963, by John Gardiner Crawford, from the Robert Gordon University 😁

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Alongside the AIDS memorial quilt, Tramway in Glasgow has a fascinating exhibition of the media, healthcare material, and letters to the quilt organisers, around the outbreak of AIDS in Scotland 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums The exhibition is on til 4th October, free and you don't need to book 👍

The front cover of Gay Scotland, from July 1963, with the headline "AIDS in Scotland", and a photo of two figures with their arms round each other's waists

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Us the day after the Hotties in Art Book Launch at Gower Street (London) Waterstones 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Duncan Grant's "Reclining Figure (Paul Roche)", 1952 😁 Check out Jack's next book events and where to buy Museum Bums and Hotties in Art 💙🩷 here: linktr.ee/jackshoulder

A painting of a figure reclining on a bed, lying on their side with the arm behind them and their knees bent

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fancy a signed copy of Hotties in Art and/or Museum Bums? Get yourselves down to @gaystheword.bsky.social asap! 😁 💙🩷 👍🏛️🍑

Jack and Mark posing with signed copies of Museum Bums and Hotties in Art at Gay's The Word

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The ‘Museum Bums’ book was a little delight - the ideal present for the lover of all things callipygian - and this latest book looks equally fab. 🍑

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY, HOTTIES IN ART!! 💙🩷 To celebrate, here's a crossover Hotty in Art Museum Bum 👍🏛️🍑💙🩷 James Bidgood's "Pan from Behind", from Pink Narcissus, late 1960s, recently exhibited at CLAMP art gallery in New York 😁 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/muse...

A photo of a model dressed as Pan, playing panpipes while sat on a tree branch. The lighting has lots of soft orange and pink and purple and green

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nigel never expected to find himself in a throuple, but sharing the rent and groceries three ways was a revelation! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Le Ruban Dénoué: Hommage à Reynaldo Hahn", 1963, Paul Cadmus, from Columbus Museum of Art 😁

A painting showing a figure sat on a chair, with a pale sprite with wings floating above them and kissing their mouth while draping blue and red fabric over them. The bottom half of the painting is a lascivious horned figure sat on the steps below the seated figure, and reaching out for them, with hooved legs spread wide, and draped in sexy red fabric

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When the only position that stops them from crying means your back is absolutely killing 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Mother and Child", c1956, Benno Schotz, from the Hunterian in Glasgow 😁

A sculpture of a figure holding a child in their arms, with the child's arms wrapped round their neck

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Our initial Museum Bums Book 3rd Birthday Giveaway Competition Winner lives outside the UK, so our new competition winner is... 🏆🎉🥂🎁Congratulations @auntiejellyfish.bsky.social!🎁🥂🎉🏆 Please send your address in a DM and we'll send you a signed copy of Hotties in Art, and of Museum Bums 🥳

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🏆🎉🥂🎁Congratulations @garruhth.bsky.social ! 🎁🥂🎉🏆 You are our Museum Bums Book 3rd Birthday Giveaway Competition Winner! Please send us your address in a DM and we'll send you a signed copy of brand new Hotties in Art, and a signed copy of Museum Bums 🥳

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The runners in Glasgow enjoy a mid-thigh short 😁👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums We're having a little weekend in #Glasgow for @jackshoulder.bsky.social 's "Hotties in Art" book tour (order now, out next week!) 💙🩷 Hector and Andromache (crop), 1774, Gavin Hamilton, The Hunterian, Glasgow

A crop of a painting showing two roman soldiers, one embracing the other. The one with their back to the viewer is wearing very tight, mid-thigh shorts

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today's your last day to enter our book giveaway competition! Get those entries in now!! 👍🏛️🍑 + 💙🩷

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Highlighting your best asset 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Roman copy of a greek torso of Aphrodite, c.100 ACE from The Burrell Collection 😁

A stone statue of a figure, with two spotlights on the statue's bum

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hotties, @proud-geek.co.uk AND the best bum in comics? Check this out from Museum Bums' co-curator @jackshoulder.bsky.social .

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

📣Don't forget, our book giveaway competition, including a signed copy of brand new Hotties in Art 🩷💙 closes tomorrow! Have you entered yet? Have you entered for a second time on our Instagram yet?? 😁 📣

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When you open the curtains expecting a sunny morning, then remember we're over halfway through September already 😳 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Tadeusz Kantor's 'I Hold the Painting in Which I Am Painted as I Hold a Painting', 1987, from the 2026 Venice Biennale Thanks @spacedlaw.bsky.social for sharing 😁

A mixed media artwork of a painting of a body with arms stretched to either side of the rectangular black canvas. Where the paint ends at the wrists, 3D sculpture hands grip the frame of the painting. Below the painted bum at the bottom edge of the frame are a lined up pair of trousers with sculpted feet at the bottom

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hooray!! Thanks Christine 😁👍🏛️🍑

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Honey, I don't think this is a balcony!! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Palace of the Vienna Bank (Palac Videnske Banknovi Jednoty) built between 1906 and 1908, sculpted by Frank Metzner Thanks @caroline-venezia.bsky.social for sharing 😁

A photo of two verdigris'd bronze sculptures on a rooftop. They're both standing on Tiptoe with their bodies facing away from the facade of the building but their heads turned to look down over their shoulders, as if they've just realised how high up they are

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Museum Bums' co-author and co-curator @jackshoulder.bsky.social has been exploring Hot Geeks for @proud-geek.co.uk to help celebrate his new book Hotties In Art! You can find Hotties wherever you buy books, including the fabulous Proud Geek Bookshop.

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Don't Throw Bouquets At Me", by Jeff Miller, on display recently as part of "New York City: A Culture of Queer", exhibition at Prince Street Project Space 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

A sculpture of a figure stood with hands on hips, with one foot up on a disembodied head, and a thrown bouquet behind them

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Happy Museum Bums' 3rd Book Birthday, everyone! 📣🚨 GIVEAWAY KLAXON 🚨📣 You can win signed copies of Museum Bums and Hotties in Art 👍🏛️🍑 + 💙🩷!! Follow, like, and comment on this post tagging a friend, to enter. Closes 18/9. Announcement 19/9 (UK only!)

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Goh Mishima was an artist thriving in the growing queer subcultures in post-WW2 Tokyo. He published "Sabu" (named after his favourite gay barman 🥰) from his apartment from c1970-1988 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums His artworks are now part of the permanent collection at the Leslie Lohman Museum in New York 😁

An ink illustration showing a figure laid on the floor with one leg flat and the other bent with the knee in the air. The figure's arms are flexed above their head showing off armpit. The only colour on the artwork is the figure's red underwear and their tattoo covering their left chest, shoulder and upper arm

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

🤨 why are you attempting to goad Bluesky into moderating us? This has been on the outside of a church for 500 years 🤷‍♂️

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When you're not sure what's in your dog's mouth, but you know you won't enjoy finding out 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums This is a 15th century stone carving of a demon consuming a naked figure on St Michael's Church, Laxton, in Nottinghamshire, UK 😁 Thanks @planet_anus for sharing

A photo of a stone carving showing a demon with their mouth open wide and inside is a view of the bottom half of a figure holding their bumcheeks

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You should (re-)watch Talented Mr Ripley 👍👀🍑

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Yes, Ody, we know boats are supposed to go forwards, but *someone* steered us into the shallows... 👀 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums The Odyssey - Departure from the Land of the Cyclops, c1859, by Friedrich Peller the Elder, from the Neues Museum Weimar, Germany. Thanks @antonio_explores for sharing 😁

A painting of Odysseus stood on his ship pointing forwards, while his crew all try and push and haul it backwards ready to set sail

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Tschabalala Self's "Lady in Blue" is unveiled on the Fourth Plinth. Tschabalala says "She is not an idol to venerate or a historic figure to commemorate, She is an everyday person ... She is striding forward into our collective future with ambition, purpose and optimism." 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

An illustration of "Lady in Blue", a statue striding forward wearing a bright blue fancy dress with matching heels and a black necklace, with her hair up in a bun

A photo of the same statue from the front, in place on the fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sorry, that's a different account 🤷‍♂️

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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Harry Holland was the 2nd leader of the Labour Party in New Zealand, and died unexpectedly while attending the funeral of the Maori King Te Rata Mahuta in 1933. His monument in Wellington Cemetery reads "He devoted his life to free the world from unhappiness, tyranny and oppression" 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

A cemetery monument depicting a nude figure stood, looking up, with smaller figures below them looking up at them

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