3D print the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
A free, printable model of the museum's columned main building, central dome and neighboring pavilions, with the park lagoon, roads and buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, formerly the Museum of Science and Industry, operates as a private, non-profit science museum in Jackson Park, in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The campus of the University of Chicago and the shore of Lake Michigan are both next door. The building began as the Palace of Fine Arts, put up for the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Charles B. Atwood designed it while working for D. H. Burnham & Company. Most other "White City" buildings were temporary, but this one stood on a permanent brick substructure beneath a plaster facade.
After the fair the palace housed the Columbian Museum, which later became the Field Museum of Natural History, and it was left vacant after the Field Museum relocated to a new building in 1920. Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and a philanthropist, pledged $3 million toward converting it and eventually gave more than $5 million. A limestone recasting of the exterior preserved the 1893 Beaux Arts look, while Alfred P. Shaw designed a new Art Moderne interior. Its 1933 opening came during the Century of Progress Exposition, and on May 19, 2024, the museum was renamed for Kenneth C. Griffin, a financier and benefactor.
Over 2,000 exhibits fill 75 major halls. Popular ones include a Boeing 727 from United Airlines, the Apollo 8 command module, a coal mine replica built at full size, and the German submarine U-505, which was captured in World War II. The Pioneer Zephyr, a streamlined diesel passenger train, was the first of its kind in the US. A model railroad covers 330 m2 (3,500 square feet).
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 800 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 | 1:5,000 |
| 200 mm | 10 mm | 1:4,000 |
| 256 mm | 12 mm | 1:3,125 |
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- Columned porticoes
- The main building has rows of slim columns at its porticoes. Print friendly adapts these thin parts to your print scale; Full detail keeps every column, best for a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- Domes among many roofs
- Two domes sit among several hip roofs. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the dome curves smooth, and a larger print keeps the small roof details.
- One piece with the ground
- The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry 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 Griffin Museum of Science and Industry 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 Griffin Museum of Science and Industry 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 Griffin Museum of Science and Industry 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 Griffin Museum of Science and Industry 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.
