3D print the Louvre Abu Dhabi
A free, printable model of the Louvre Abu Dhabi, its open lattice dome over gallery blocks, with the water, paths and roads around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Louvre Abu Dhabi
The Louvre Abu Dhabi, an art museum, stands on Saadiyat Island within Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The museum may use the name of the Louvre until 2047 under a deal that France and the UAE signed in March 2007, and the Louvre has described it as the largest French cultural project abroad. The museum covers approximately 24,000 square meters (260,000 sq ft), with 8,000 square meters (86,000 sq ft) of galleries, which makes it the biggest art museum anywhere on the Arabian Peninsula. It sets out to bridge Eastern and Western art.
Abu Dhabi chose Jean Nouvel, known for designing Paris's Arab World Institute, as architect in 2006. He designed a dome that seems to float, with a web-like pattern that lets the sun filter through; the effect is meant to echo light falling through the fronds of date palms in an oasis. A 7,000-metric-ton dome rests on four concrete pillars. The first piece of the canopy went up on December 5, 2013, and the final super-sized piece was fitted on September 22, 2014.
The United Arab Emirates put the idea of a museum bearing the Louvre's name to the French government in 2005, and the two countries signed their agreement on March 6, 2007. Construction officially started on May 26, 2009, and 4,536 piles were completed on August 3, 2010. The main phase began in early 2013 under a $653 million contract. The museum was inaugurated on November 8, 2017, and welcomed the public three days after that.
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 | 13 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 16 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 20 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Open lattice dome
- The dome is an open lattice of thin, crossing beams in several layers. Print friendly adapts thin parts like these to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, best printed slowly with good cooling and 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers.
- Gaps in the roof pattern
- Many small gaps sit between the dome beams, over a cluster of boxy gallery blocks. A larger print keeps the gaps easier to read.
- One piece with the ground
- The Louvre Abu Dhabi 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 Louvre Abu Dhabi 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 Louvre Abu Dhabi 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 Louvre Abu Dhabi 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 Louvre Abu Dhabi grows with the print: about 13 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.
