Museum Selfie day – in pictures

Lots of people, like Amber Spicer, have used works by Anish Kapoor to create new kinds of filter Photograph: @spicer_a

'As The Lord’s representative on Earth, I have captured my likeness for you to gaze upon in wonder' Photograph: @HRP_palaces

A little mermaid gets in on the #MuseumSelfie action at the Chicago Botanic Garden Photograph: @chicagobotanic

One of the more creative selfies of the day, taken at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York Photograph: @acaudel

Doppelganger alert at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, who submitted this shot Photograph: @mfaboston

Bare-faced cheek at the Woodhorn museum in Northumberland Photograph: @SamCrampton

The Vikings of York's JORVIK Viking Centre have gone 'berserk' over Museum Selfie day Photograph: @JorvikViking

Museums and the Web conference organisers at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy Photograph: @arttrav

More Vikings, this time from Jenni Fuchs at the National Museum of Scotland Photograph: @jennifuchs

Tolson Museum's Half Pig (@TolsonHalf_Pig) tries to capture its best side Photograph: @TolsonHalf_Pig

A selfie from London's British Museum Photograph: @hollyrhawkins

Mïchael Hardy takes a magnified shot at the Barnsley Museum and Discovery Centre Photograph: @Themichaelhardy

Guggenheim registrar Mark Schlemmer takes a picture of Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Dots Mirrored Room at Pittsburgh's Mattress Factory Photograph: @MarkBSchlemmer

Bristol Museum have a visitor take a giant selfie ahead of the venue's Chinese New Year celebrations Photograph: @bristol_museum

'What is a #MuseumSelfie without me and my friend Hannibal?' asks Nanna Gerdes, conservator at the Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen Photograph: @NaGerdes

A selfie taken through dodecahedral crystals in the Minerals Gallery at the Natural History Museum in London Photograph: @amyfreeborn

Aurélie Albajar takes a shot at the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, France Photograph: @Lillitoul

A selfie taken at the National Media Museum in Bradford Photograph: @ShoreCottageArt

A #MuseumSelfie with Linette and Stacey at the Western Australian Museum in Perth Photograph: @wamuseum

Bibliophile bear Tabitha Teddy says 'Walk on!' at the Milestones Museum in Basingstoke Photograph: @TabithaTeddy

Even William Shakespeare can't resist a #MuseumSelfie Photograph: @ShakespeareBT

The Grant Museum of Zoology's plastic skeleton Stan gets in on #MuseumSelfie day Photograph: @GrantMuseum