3D print the Field Museum
A free, printable model of the museum and the parkland, winding paths and roads around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Field Museum
The Field Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, run as a private–public institution. It is described as one of the largest museums of its kind in the world. It belongs to Chicago's lakefront Museum Campus, which also holds the Adler Planetarium and the John G. Shedd Aquarium. A private nonprofit, the museum works in close partnership with the Chicago Park District, the municipal agency that owns the land and the building.
The museum and its collections grew out of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Marshall Field, a merchant, was persuaded by Edward Ayer to fund a museum for the exhibits assembled for the fair, and the State of Illinois incorporated it on September 16, 1893, as the Columbian Museum of Chicago. In 1905 it became the Field Museum of Natural History, honoring Marshall Field, its first major benefactor and a department-store magnate. In 1921 the museum relocated from Jackson Park to a site near downtown Chicago, its present home. From 1943 to 1966 it was called the Chicago Natural History Museum.
By the late 1930s it had become a premier museum, one of three in the country, alongside New York City's American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. Evolving Planet traces life's evolution on Earth across 4 billion years, and Inside Ancient Egypt includes a three-story replica of a mastaba tomb. The museum also features the man-eating lions of Tsavo, and it has an authentic Māori Meeting House from the 19th century, from Tokomaru Bay, New Zealand.
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 | 8 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 11 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 13 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Rows of slim columns
- Each wing has a long row of thin columns along its front. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail and a bigger print size keep more of them.
- A long, low building
- The museum is wide and low next to the land around it, so a larger print size shows more of its detail. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the roof features crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The Field 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 Field 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 Field 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 a Field 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 Field Museum grows with the print: about 8 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.
