Download Coloring Pages From Over 100 Museums
We first shared this post in early 2019, long after the peak of adult coloring pages . But desperate times call for desperate measures, and a global pandemic with no signs of abating is certainly a good fit. If you’ve been contemplating puzzles , maybe try coloring books? But it seems like an intelligent color. More than a hundred museums and libraries around the world create coloring pages from their collections for the Color Our Collections program run by the New York Academy of Medicine. Along with the previous annual collections, you can now print 509 PDF coloring pages. Here are some of our favorites.
These are just screen shots; you can see the full size PDF from the link below each image. Pages vary in subject matter and level of detail, but museums have made sure the images are kid-friendly. (There are some medieval violence and religious scenes if that’s what you want to watch before sending your kids to the site.)
Some books are only a couple of pages long, others are longer, and some contain sketches of full-color originals. They all give names to the sources of the images, and they all use public domain images that are allowed to be reused.
From illustration by Gerda Wegener, Journal des dames et des mode, in the British Library Coloring Book 2019 .
Art by Andrew Lang from The Red Book of Animal Stories , Libraries and Cultural Resources, Coloring Book from the University of Calgary Collections 2019 .
Chimera of the book Ulysses Aldrovandi Monstrorum Historia in the coloring books of Bernard Becker Medical Library in 2019 .
Scene from Conradin’s novel : The Philosophical Ballad of K. Ashby and Philip Mareth in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Special Coloring Collection 2019 .
Illustration from the book Cato et contemptus by Dionisio Cato in the Biblioteca de la Universidad de Zaragoza Coloring Book 2019 .
Have fun coloring and post pictures of your work on social media with the hashtag #ColorOurCollections . You can see more interesting points on the Open Culture blog . View all 509 coloring pages here . Color our collections | NYAM This post was originally published in February 2019. It was updated in August 2020. The changes included a new introduction and an update to the total number of coloring pages available through the program.