魅力的な「お尻」が世界の美術館から大集結！ #BestMuseumBumって何？
先月末、イギリスの「ヨークシャー博物館」が公式Twitterに、「#BestMuseumBum（博物館・美術館の最高のお尻選手権）」というハッシュタグを添えて、ローマ彫刻のお尻の写真を投稿。
世界各地の博物館・美術館の公式アカウントやユーザーもこれに便乗し、Twitter上には各施設の収蔵品の“お尻”にフォーカスした写真が多数投稿され、盛り上がっていました。魅力的なお尻の数々をピックアップしてご紹介します。
For today’s #CURATORBATTLE (or perhaps #CURATORREBUTTAL?) theme of #BestMuseumBum, we present Hercules knocking it out of the park…
— Wallace Collection (@WallaceMuseum) June 26, 2020
A work by the goldsmith Francesco Pomarano, this boxwood statuette was already a celebrated piece in the #sixteenthcentury.#WallaceFromHome pic.twitter.com/3LoD6JkIOa
Rugby Changing Room, Carmarthen by Ken Etheridge (1959)#CuratorBattle pic.twitter.com/kLywma8HUY
— World Rugby Museum (@wrugbymuseum) June 26, 2020
Zeus’s bottom is always a real crowd-pleaser, too. This bronze cast of a statue of the Greek god dates back to c.470 BC, and is about 2 metres tall #CURATORBATTLE pic.twitter.com/t8TNdhwvhD
— Ashmolean Museum (@AshmoleanMuseum) June 26, 2020
Oh butt you haven't seen ours yet. We thought we'd take a crack at this week's #CURATORBATTLE with these peaches @AngleseyAbbey #BestMuseumBum. We can confirm that bottom dusting is an important part of our conservation work. pic.twitter.com/U5LZITXWPp
— National Trust in the East (@East_England_NT) June 26, 2020
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
Oooh cheeky! This rear view snap of Frederic Leighton's The Sluggard is absolutely peach perfect, don't you think?
— Victoria Gallery & Museum (@VictoriaGallery) June 26, 2020
We love Fridays because #CuratorBattle 💥#BestMuseumBum #MuseumBums 🍑 pic.twitter.com/dv0KogX7tk
Love this idea! What do you think of the bronze 🍑 on our Botero? #bestmuseumbum #boterogotback pic.twitter.com/leXNOhq62R
— Fred Jones Jr. Museum Art (@fjjma) July 8, 2020
How about these bums of SUMO wrestlers in our collections? These bums were painted by Hokusai!! #CURATORBATTLE #BestMuseumBum #おうちで浮世絵 pic.twitter.com/DH4rAyQ8Xs
— 太田記念美術館 Ota Memorial Museum of Art (@ukiyoeota) June 26, 2020
We don't think you can beat these two floofy butts, courtesy of rabbits Tommy and Bella in the Animal Walk 🐇🐰 #BestMuseumBum #CURATORBATTLE pic.twitter.com/sSjWJFjBXz
— Horniman Museum and Gardens (@HornimanMuseum) June 29, 2020
In honour of #NIW2020 we submit the Bumblebee (Bombus sp.) for this weeks #CURATORBATTLE #bestmuseumbum though floofiest (technical term) bum must surely go to the Bee Hawkmoth (Hemaris tityus) #EntoAtHome #insects #minibeasts pic.twitter.com/zRNj2NBkNz
— Grant Museum of Zoology (@GrantMuseum) June 26, 2020
Our Arctic Wolf taxidermy has a very.. realistic bum.#BestMuseumBum? 😬 pic.twitter.com/sJ0geqELdS
— Brandon General Museum & Archives (@TheBGMA) June 26, 2020
なお、今回火付け役となったヨークシャー博物館は、現在コロナウイルスの影響で休館中。
美術館や博物館に直接足を運んで楽しめるようになる日は残念ながらまだまだ先になりそうですが、こうして世界中の作品をSNS上で観られるのはうれしいかぎりですね！
