Download 150 Free Coloring Books from Great Libraries, Museums & Cultural Institutions: The British Library, Smithsonian, Carnegie Hall & More

A news alert for fans of col­or­ing books.

You can now take part in the 2018 edi­tion of #Col­or­Our­Col­lec­tions–a cam­paign where muse­ums, libraries and oth­er cul­tur­al insti­tu­tions make avail­able free col­or­ing books, let­ting you col­or art­work from their col­lec­tions and then share it on Twit­ter and oth­er social media plat­forms. When shar­ing, use the hash­tag #Col­or­Our­Col­lec­tions.

Below you can find a col­lec­tion of 20 free col­or­ing books, which you can down­load, print, and col­or until you can col­or no more. Also find a com­plete list of 150 col­or­ing books over at this site main­tained by The New York Acad­e­my of Med­i­cine Library.

To see the free col­or­ing books offered up in 2016, click here. And 2017, here.

• Brook­lyn Col­lec­tion at Brook­lyn Pub­lic Library
• Cam­bridge Uni­ver­si­ty Library Col­or­ing Book
• Carnegie Hall Archives Col­or­ing Book
• Digi­ta Vat­i­cana
• Escuela Supe­ri­or de Artes de Yucatán Col­or­ing Book
• Euro­peana Col­or­ing Book
• Har­vard Cen­ter for the His­to­ry of Med­i­cine
• Lane Med­ical Library – Med­ical His­to­ry Cen­ter, Stan­ford Med­i­cine Col­or­ing Book
• New­ber­ry Library Col­or­ing Book
• New York Acad­e­my of Med­i­cine
• North­west­ern Uni­ver­si­ty Dis­tinc­tive Col­lec­tions Col­or­ing Book
• Queens’ Col­lege Library, Cam­bridge Col­or­ing Book
• The Bodleian Libraries Col­or­ing Book (Oxford)
• The British Library
• The Bio­di­ver­si­ty Her­itage Library
• The New York Botan­i­cal Gar­den
• The Smith­son­ian
• The Uni­ver­si­ty of Kansas
• Thomas Edi­son Nation­al His­tor­i­cal Park Col­or­ing Book
• Uni­ver­si­ty of Strath­clyde Archives and Spe­cial Col­lec­tions Col­or­ing Book

The image up top comes from The British Library.

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