3D print Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
A free, printable model of the museum building, its turrets and barrel-vaulted roof, with the park, water and streets around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, a major gallery and museum, sits in Glasgow's Yorkhill area, in Scotland. It stands in Kelvingrove Park in the city's West End, with the University of Glasgow to its north and the Kelvin Hall to its south. Its museum collections cover Scottish history, the history of Glasgow, natural history, Egyptian antiquities, design, architecture and medieval arms and armor, while its art collections rank among Europe's great civic art collections.
The gallery was the work of the architects E.J. Milner Allen and Sir John W. Simpson. In 1901 it opened as the Palace of Fine Arts of that year's Glasgow International Exhibition, and it opened fully to the public on October 1, 1902. The 1888 International Exhibition's proceeds, from an event held in Kelvingrove Park, helped pay for construction. The style is Spanish Baroque, with Locharbriggs red sandstone outside and Giffnock white sandstone inside, and sculptors including Francis Derwent Wood, George Frampton and William Shirreffs created an entire program of architectural sculpture for it.
The Centre Hall's centerpiece is a concert pipe organ built by Lewis & Co., first commissioned for the 1901 exhibition and bought with surplus exhibition proceeds. A Glasgow urban myth says the building was built the wrong way round by mistake and that the architect jumped from a tower in despair, but the grand entrance was always meant to face Kelvingrove Park. Queen Elizabeth II reopened the building on July 11, 2006, once a closure of three years for refurbishment had ended.
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 | 11 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 14 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 18 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Small domed turrets
- Slim turrets with domed caps stand at the corners and beside the central tower. Printing slowly and using layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm helps keep their tops crisp.
- A barrel roof with rooflights
- A long curved central roof sits between flat roofs with rows of rooflights. Print friendly adapts these details to the print scale; Full detail keeps more of them, which suits a larger print.
- One piece with the ground
- Kelvingrove Art Gallery and 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. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and 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
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and 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 Kelvingrove Art Gallery and 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. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum grows with the print: about 11 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.
