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Museums get up to some very interesting and weird things on social media. The Yorkshire Museum launched a worldwide battle between curators on June 26 to see which museum has the very best behind (or derrière if you want to sound all fancy) in its collection. The Yorkshire Museum started the challenge off with a photo of a Roman marble statuette of an athlete who has a chunk missing from his bum.

Plenty of other museums took up the challenge and posted their own works of art. Scroll down, upvote your fave pics, and let us know in the comments below which museum’s work of art deserves to be the winner of the #BestMuseumBum challenge! Let the games… begin!

The Yorkshire Museum, which is in England, launches a #CURATORSBATTLE every Friday. When you’re done enjoying the works of art in this list, Bored Panda invites you to have a look through our previous post about museums battling over who has the creepiest exhibit.

More info: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | YorkshireMuseum.org.uk

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The weekly curator battle for the best bum got more than 1.7k likes and over 800 retweets, as museums from all over the globe pitched in with what they thought was the best candidate to win the challenge.

Some of these are absolutely fantastic works of art while others are a bit strange. We were also surprised to see so many animal bottoms make an appearance (the bumblebee is our favorite but don’t let that affect your voting!).

The York Museums Trust said that they’d been running the curators battles throughout the Covid-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom and they’ve become very popular.

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“It is a chance for museums big and small to share their objects under a given theme to create what essentially become global online exhibitions,” a spokesperson for the YMT said.

“We have run a variety of different themes over the weeks but best museum bums is proving one of the most popular yet—it’s great to see museums around the world sharing their cheekiest objects,” the representative quipped.

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Millicent Carroll, digital engagement officer for the York Museums Trust which runs the Yorkshire Museum, previously told Bored Panda: “The curator battle has been gradually building as more and more museums and the general public look at our Twitter feed every Friday to see what theme we’re going to pitch.”

She pointed out that it’s great for museums to still be able to share their collections with the public online, even while their doors were still closed during the coronavirus quarantine.

Carroll said it is great for museums to be able to still share their collections with the public when their doors are closed. The Yorkshire Museum Trust had previously been forced to close all of the museums it runs, including the Yorkshire Museum. “We have lost 70% of our income, as most of it comes from visitor admissions,” communications manager for the trust, Lee, previously said.