3D print the Auckland War Memorial Museum
A free, printable model of the Auckland War Memorial Museum, with its columned front, domed roof and curved rear wing, standing in parkland ringed by roads, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Auckland War Memorial Museum
The Auckland War Memorial Museum, also called Auckland Museum, is described as one of the most important museums and war memorials in New Zealand. Its neoclassical building occupies Observatory Hill in the Auckland Domain, close to the city's CBD; the hill is what remains of a dormant volcano. The collections focus on New Zealand history, especially that of the Auckland Region, together with natural history and military history. They began in 1852, and the name Auckland War Memorial Museum first belonged to the building that opened in 1929.
The Institute of British Architects funded a worldwide architectural competition that drew more than 70 entries. Grierson, Aimer and Draffin, an Auckland firm, won with a neoclassical design reminiscent of Greco-Roman temples. Building work began in August 1925 and finished in 1929, when Governor-General Sir Charles Fergusson opened it. It is made mostly of English Portland stone, with New Zealand granite from the Coromandel used for detailing, and its exterior bas-reliefs by Richard Gross show 20th-century armed forces and personnel.
The 1929 building was designed with future extension in mind. In the late 1950s an administration annex was added at the southern rear, with a large semi-circular courtyard, to commemorate the Second World War. It was designed by M. K. and R. F. Draffin, a pair that included one of the museum's original architects and his son. A later extension, finished in 2007, put a great dome and atrium in the central courtyard, adding 60 percent to the floor area, an extra 9,600 m2 or 103,000 sq ft. The work cost NZ$64.5 million.
How it prints
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.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 7 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 9 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 12 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Slim columns at the front
- A row of slim columns stands across the front of the building. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale, while Full detail keeps them on a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- Ribbed dome roof
- A shallow domed roof with fine radiating ribs sits over the rear courtyard. Layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep the curved surface smooth, and a larger print size keeps the ribs distinct.
- One piece with the ground
- The Auckland War Memorial 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 Auckland War Memorial 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 this model
The Auckland War Memorial Museum is one of more than 2,300 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.
Common questions
Is there an Auckland War Memorial Museum STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Auckland War Memorial Museum grows with the print: about 7 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
