--- title: Mom Poses Nailing Every Masterpiece at This Museum description: Her daughter shared her impressive range of photos online after a visit to the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. canonical: https://time.com/5365392/mom-museum-selfies/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-13T15:30:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:17.144Z og:title: This Mom's Poses Nail Every Masterpiece at This Museum og:description: Could this be the beginning of the #MomMuseumChallenge? og:url: https://time.com/5365392/mom-museum-selfies/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Mom's Poses Nail Every Masterpiece at This Museum twitter:description: Could this be the beginning of the #MomMuseumChallenge? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Mother's Poses Nail Every Masterpiece at This Museum > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=8948c9ef-7c09-480f-b0da-201d8bb3194f&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1)  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 13, 2018 3:30 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 13, 2018 3:30 PM UTC There’s art. There are [selfies](http://time.com/5202198/self-portraits-selfies/). And there’s the specific subcategory of [museum art selfies](http://time.com/4858769/selfie-museum-damage/) — which this mom has just officially won, according to the acclaim she has raked in on Twitter. After a student took her parents to visit the one of the Smithsonian museums during their trip to help her move in to college in Washington, D.C., she shared their sightseeing experience with the internet. “So my parents came to help me move to DC and I took them to the Smithsonian Art museum. My mom decided it was her time to shine,” the daughter — who goes by Angelique Cherie on Twitter — wrote. She then uploaded a series of photos of her mom taking the museum art selfie extremely seriously. From Amy Sherald’s popular [portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama](http://time.com/5143747/obama-presidential-portrait-kehinde-wiley/) to any number of marble sculptures, she reenacts each pose and expression with an impressive commitment to the composition of the originals. While many of us are guilty of attempting a few art re-creations here or there when passing through a museum, this mom seems to have a natural talent for nailing the poses. (In fact, the only one she seems to have decided _not_ to pose for is [Kehinde Wiley](http://time.com/5147364/kehinde-wiley-artist-painted-barack-obama-portrait/)‘s portrait of President Barack Obama. For that one, she blew Obama a kiss.) Twitter agrees — and has even suggested that the #MomMuseumChallenge become a thing. Just make sure you’re [selfie-ing responsibly](http://time.com/4858769/selfie-museum-damage/). > [](https://twitter.com/tresAngelique/status/1028494341780787200) > [](https://twitter.com/tresAngelique/status/1028494206753546242) > [](https://twitter.com/tresAngelique/status/1028489514006863872) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5365392/mom-museum-selfies/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5365392/mom-museum-selfies/"},"headline":"This Mother's Poses Nail Every Masterpiece at This Museum","datePublished":"2018-08-13T15:30:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:17.144Z","description":"When selfies imitate art","url":"https://time.com/5365392/mom-museum-selfies/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Art"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5365392/mom-museum-selfies/","name":"This Mother's Poses Nail Every Masterpiece at This Museum"}}]}] ```