3D print the Art Institute of Chicago
A free, printable model of the Art Institute of Chicago and the surrounding streets and buildings, generated from real map data in your browser.
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Art Institute of Chicago 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.
- Fine facade detail
A large museum building has many small facade details. A larger print size keeps them, and Print friendly adapts thin parts to the print scale.
- 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 Art Institute of Chicago 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 Art Institute of Chicago
A private nonprofit art museum in Chicago's Grant Park, the Art Institute of Chicago was founded in 1879 and ranks with the country's oldest and biggest art museums. Among its works are A Sunday on La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat, The Old Guitarist by Pablo Picasso, Nighthawks by Edward Hopper and American Gothic by Grant Wood. The city of Chicago owns the land, and the Chicago Park District administers it.
Its home was built for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. The institute had pressed for a lakefront building to be put up for the fair and used by the institute afterwards, and the city agreed. Work finished in time for the fair's second year, and selling the Michigan/Van Buren property covered the building costs. The institute moved in on October 31, 1893. On December 8, 1893, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, with Theodore Thomas, played at the reception for the opening.
As the collection grew, several additions followed. Renzo Piano designed the Modern Wing, the most recent of them, which opened on May 16, 2009. It added 264,000 square feet (24,500 m2), lifting the footprint to almost one million square feet. With it, the Art Institute became the country's second-largest art museum, trailing only New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The school attached to the museum is legally part of it.
About this model
The Art Institute of Chicago is one of more than 5,500 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Each model is written as code from public descriptions, plans, photographs and aerial views used only as references; no image or third-party model is copied into it. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. Rights in the building itself, its name and any brands on it are not granted by Mini Skyline; clear them separately before you sell prints. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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