3D print the Arctic World Archive
A free, printable model of the Arctic World Archive, with its surface buildings and silo on the ground in Spitsbergen, generated from real map data in your browser.
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The model you print
Arctic World Archive in 3D
The landmark on its own, at its size on a 160 mm print. Print friendly thickens thin parts for a 0.4 mm nozzle; Full detail keeps every part.
- 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.
- Silo and conveyor
The model shows the surface mine complex, with a cylindrical silo and an inclined conveyor rising to a small housing on top. Full detail keeps the conveyor supports and window band; Print friendly groups them.
- Open conveyor supports
The conveyor runs above open supports, and the entrance hall carries a close row of small windows. A larger print or 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers helps those thin parts stay legible.
- One piece with the ground
The Arctic World Archive 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 Arctic World Archive 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 Arctic World Archive
The Arctic World Archive is a data preservation facility on the island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago of Norway. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault stands a few hundred meters away. It preserves records of historical and cultural value from several countries, including all of GitHub's public open source repositories, kept on silver halide film inside a large steel vault under the Arctic permafrost.
It was created from a mineshaft in Store Norske Gruve 3, an abandoned coal mine, and opened on March 27, 2017. Brazil, Mexico and Norway each deposited copies of historical documents there. The facility sits 150 to 300 meters (490 to 980 ft) under the ground or permafrost, secured by a concrete wall and steel gate.
The permafrost keeps the vault below freezing even if the power fails, and the site is deep enough to avoid damage from nuclear and EMP weapons. The archive keeps its data offline on reels of film that can last at least 500 years in optimum conditions, and possibly as long as 2,000. Retrieval is not connected to the internet: a requested reel is taken out by hand and retrieved in 20–30 minutes at the fastest.
About this model
The Arctic World Archive is one of more than 4,900 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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