117 museums and libraries offer their collections in free coloring pages to print

Last updated on 27 June 2024

Where can I find colouring pages to print? Where can I find colouring pages for adults or children? "Color our Collections" is an international operation that could not have fallen better this year. This initiative, launched for the first time in 2016 by the New York Academy of Medicine, invites lovers of art and free colouring from around the world to download thousands of black and white artworks, coloring drawings, from dozens of museums and libraries around the world.

Thousands of pages of free colouring pages that will allow you to get as close as possible to an artistic heritage hidden in major international collections.

While half of humanity lives under confinement #ColorOurCollections makes colouring an exceptional moment of discovery and creation. It even seems that coloring helps fight stress. So you might as well relax on exceptional works of art thanks to all these magical colouring pages. I love it.

This year 117 museums and libraries offer free coloring pages

I have already mentioned here: Color Our Collections, each year new institutions join the catalogue. The list is too long to detail here, I just picked for you some must-see addresses that offer you images to color.

To every lord, every honor, required passage through the library of theNew York Academy of Medicine. We can never thank them enough for launching this great operation. Their colouring book to be printed this year is again filled with strange animals and singular characters.

Another safe bet is the European Library Europeana This year’s event features a collection of images dedicated to women in history.

In France stop for a moment on the boards proposed by the Jacques - Chirac Media Library of Troyes or the Angers Municipal Library.

If you want to travel a bit the collection offers the possibility to have a digital overview of the history of cities, states and even entire countries. Take a leap on the pages of the National Library of Chile or on the illustrations of the State of Hawaii Foundation for culture and the arts.

You will find all the institutions involved in this operation Color Our Collections on this page for each of them a PDF file with the drawings to be downloaded and the colouring books to be printed. Note that the game also involves publishing the works on social networks. The hashtag to follow on Twitter or Instagram is #ColorOurCollections