Each year, the Science History Institute joins other cultural organizations from around the world for #ColorOurCollections, a weeklong coloring fest launched in 2016 by the New York Academy of Medicine Library.
If you are a fan of both coloring and chemistry, grab those colored pencils (a product of chemistry!) and add your own artistic embellishments to items from the Science History Institute’s collections of fine art, alchemical illustrations, periodic tables, and more.
Click on the links below for printable PDFs, and share your results on social media using #ColorOurCollections.
- The Charm of Color (1928)
- Eagles and Snail, Stag and Unicorn, Basil Valentine’s 12th Key from Musaeum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum (1678)
- Fairy Land of Chemistry: Explorations in the World of Atoms (1887)
- Dye Label with Macaw (ca. 1900)
- Magnolia Glauca from Drugs and Medicines of North America, 1884–1887
- Medical Plants from The Book of Health (1898)
- Mysto Magic Exhibition Set No. 2 (ca. 1938)
- Studying a Woman’s Results (1771)
- Princess & Fairy, Or, The Wonders of Nature (1899)
More from our collections to color:
- CBA Chart of Electronegatives – Atomic and Ionic Radii
- Emblema XVIII and Salamander from Atalanta Fugiens (1618)
- Spiral Periodic Chart
- Symmetrical Series Table (1886)
- Frontispiece of Fairy Land of Chemistry: Explorations in the World of Atoms (1887)
- Pyrotechnic set piece of a dragon from Artis Magnae Artilleriae: Pars Prima (1650)
- A Chymist (1829) by W. B. Cooke
- Advertisement for Eastman Organic Chemicals Department, Eastman Kodak Company, circa 1950
- William Henry Perkin, Pioneer in Synthetic Organic Dyes
- Frontispiece of The Young Botanist (1835)
- The Alchemist (1937) by N. C. Wyeth
- Philosopher Laughing at Magick, after a painting by David Teniers II
- Illustration from My Water Cure (1892)
