3D print the Heard Museum
A free, printable model of the Heard Museum, a low cluster of flat-roofed blocks with slatted walkway covers, beside a green circular area and streets, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Heard Museum
The Heard Museum, a private nonprofit museum in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, is devoted to advancing American Indian art. Its galleries tell American Indian people's stories from a first-person viewpoint. They also show traditional art and contemporary art made by American Indian artists, as well as by artists whose work was influenced by American Indian art. Its main Phoenix location carries the designation Phoenix Point of Pride.
Dwight B. and Maie Bartlett Heard founded the museum in 1929 to hold their personal art collection. Much of the archaeological material they collected came from the La Ciudad Indian ruin, which they bought in 1926. Bennie Gonzales, the architect of Scottsdale City Hall, designed portions of the museum building itself.
The museum has over 12,000 m² (130,000 sq ft) of gallery, classroom and performance space, and its collection has over 40,000 items. A library and archives hold over 34,000 volumes. One exhibit is titled Home: Native Peoples in the Southwest. Others are the Mareen Allen Nichols Collection, with 260 pieces of contemporary jewelry, and the Barry Goldwater Collection, which has 437 historic Hopi kachina dolls. Libby Amphitheater, an outdoor space in front of the museum, hosts the World Championship Hoop Dance Contest. Next to it stands the American Indian Veterans National Memorial.
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 | 3 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 4 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 5 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A low, wide cluster
- The museum is a low group of flat-roofed blocks, so it prints flat and wide. A larger print shows more of the building outlines and roof details.
- Slatted walkway covers
- Two slatted covers on thin posts reach toward the green area. Print friendly adapts thin posts to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, best on a larger print.
- One piece with the ground
- The Heard 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 Heard 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 Heard 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 Heard 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 Heard Museum grows with the print: about 3 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.
