Download Coloring Pages From Over 100 Museums
We first shared this post in early 2019, long after the peak of the adult coloring fad. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and a global pandemic that shows no sign of abating certainly qualifies. If you’ve peaced out on puzzles, maybe try some coloring? But like, highbrow coloring.
Over a hundred museums and libraries around the world make coloring books based on their collections for the Color Our Collections program, led by the New York Academy of Medicine. Along with the previous annual collections, there are now 509 PDF coloring books you can print out. Here are some of our favorites.
These are just screencaps; you can see a full-size PDF in the link below each picture. The pages vary in subject and level of detail, but the museums have taken care to keep images kid-friendly. (There is some medieval violence and religious scenes, if that’s something you want to screen before you send your kids to the site.)
Some of the books are just a couple of pages, others longer, and some include thumbnails of the full-color originals. They all name image sources, and they all use public domain images that are legal to reuse.