What’s better than taking in art, illustration and documents of historical import in a museum or library? Getting out your crayons or colored pencils and drawing all over it, of course. And you can do just that all week long thanks to an international group of museums, libraries and other institutions participating in an initiative called #ColorOurCollections.
No, it’s not an invitation to vandalism—rather, participating organizations have rounded images from their collections that make great coloring pages. From illustrations to maps to everything in between, the eminently color-worthy pictures are just begging to be filled in. And thanks to the magic of the internet, they’re just a click and a printer away.
The concept was first launched by the New York Academy of Medicine Library last year, and since then more than 60 institutions have decided to participate in the weeklong festivities.
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