Yorkshire museum calls on curators to enter battle of the sculpted bums

The competition has been welcomed by visitors unable to ‘ogle the buns’ in person

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The Venus Callipyge, or 'Venus of the beautiful buttocks'
(Image credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Museum curators from around the globe have been invited by a Yorkshire Museum to help find the world’s “Best Museum Bum”.

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