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A classic colouring book with its colouring pages is an absolute novelty in the Museum shop's range of gifts. This is the first product - apart from a short series of jigsaws created a few years ago - that the Museum has designed with the youngest audience in mind.

What makes our colouring book stand out on the market of similar publications is its historical origins - the illustrations are accompanied by poems by Barbara ‘Wirta’ Lewandowska, one of the participants of the uprising, who after its fall was, among others, a prisoner of Stalag 344 Lamsdorf.  The short rhymes come from the post-war years, when Barbara Lewandowska - a trained educator - became known as an editor of magazines for children and young people (including the editor-in-chief of ‘Miś’ [the Bear]) and the author of numerous works addressed to them: commentaries, radio plays, song lyrics, poems and short stories.

The illustrations, on the other hand, are the work of Ewelina Kędzia, an Opole-based young artist with a rich and interesting portfolio with numerous realisations of posters, postcards, illustrations for children's books or projects as specific as the screensaver for which the artist was awarded first prize in the BenQ DesignVue Competition in 2019.

The colouring book is a conceptual continuation of the series of postcards ‘It's time to go home’, the drawings for which were also made by Ewelina Kędzia. Both the cards and the colouring book can be purchased at both Museum seats or here.