3D print the Hubei Provincial Museum
A free, printable model of the Hubei Provincial Museum, with its hipped-roof halls and large modern wing and the lakes, lawns and roads around them, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Hubei Provincial Museum
Wuhan's Hubei Provincial Museum, a first-class museum in China, sits in Wuchang District, close to the western edge of East Lake, in Hubei Province. Founded in 1953, it moved to its location in 1960 and took its name in 1963. More than 460,000 objects are in its collection. Among them are a set of ancient bronze bells called Bianzhong, the Sword of Goujian, material from Marquis Yi of Zeng's tomb and the tombs at Baoshan, and part of the Guodian Chu Slips.
In all, the museum has 125,000 square meters of building area, with 38,000 square meters of that devoted to exhibitions. It is arranged as four museums plus three centers plus two bases, and its layout recalls the central axis of symmetry in the architecture of the Chu Dynasty. In 2021 a new building rose to the south of the original complex. It has five floors, four above ground and one underground, and includes twelve themed exhibition halls, a digital hall, three temporary halls and a performance hall for chime bells. The old building is shaped like a ladder and the new one like an inverted ladder.
Excavators found the Sword of Goujian in Tomb No. 1 at Wangshan, in Jiangling, in December 1965. The sword is 55.6 centimeters in length and 5 centimeters in width, and it has stayed free of rust for over 2,000 years. In 1978, Marquis Yi of Zeng's Bianzhong bells turned up in Suixian County. Its bell stand measures 7.48 meters in length and 2.65 meters in height, and the set has 54 bells.
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 | 16 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 20 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 25 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Tiled pyramid roofs
- The traditional-style halls have hipped roofs with a fine tile texture. Layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep the texture crisp, and Print friendly may smooth it on a small print.
- Flared modern wing
- The large modern wing flares outward toward its roof, which creates overhangs. A larger print size and layers of 0.12–0.16 mm help the sloped edges print cleanly.
- 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 Hubei Provincial 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 Hubei Provincial 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 Hubei Provincial 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 Hubei Provincial Museum grows with the print: about 16 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.
