3D print the Acropolis Museum
A free, printable model of the museum and the low buildings, streets and small green patches around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 9 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
9 mm tall on a 160 mm print
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Slender columns under the building
Thin columns hold the building above the ground and are the most delicate parts of the model. Print slowly, and Print friendly adapts the thinnest ones to the print scale.
- An overhanging upper level
The upper block juts out over the lower levels, with long flat overhangs. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the undersides and edges clean.
- One piece with the ground
The Acropolis Museum is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Acropolis Museum takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About the Acropolis Museum
Athens' Acropolis Museum is an archaeological museum devoted to finds from the Acropolis site. It was built to hold every artifact from the rock and its slopes, spanning the Greek Bronze Age through Roman and Byzantine Greece, and parts of Roman and early Byzantine Athens lie in ruins beneath it. It was founded in 2003 and opened to the public on June 20, 2009. It sits on the Acropolis hill's southeastern slope, along the ancient road that climbed to the sacred rock, and its entrance is on Dionysiou Areopagitou Street.
The earlier museum stood on the Acropolis itself. Completed in 1874, it was moderately expanded in the 1950s, but successive excavations uncovered many new artifacts that far exceeded its capacity. After several competitions, the final design was won by the New York–based architect Bernard Tschumi, working with the Greek architect Michael Photiadis. Revised plans lifted the building above ground on pillars. Excavations found two layers of small private houses and workshops by the road, one early Byzantine and the other classical.
The collections occupy three levels, with a fourth, middle level for the shop, the café and the offices. The top level sits askew on the lower ones so that it faces the same compass directions as the ancient temple on the Acropolis. In the Parthenon hall, 48 columns trace the outline of that temple, and natural light reaches the Parthenon marbles through glass walls on every side. In places the floor is glass, so visitors can see the excavations below.
About this model
The Acropolis Museum is one of more than 4,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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