3D print the Milwaukee Art Museum
A free, printable model of the Milwaukee Art Museum and the lakeshore, lawns, roads and buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Milwaukee Art Museum
On the Lake Michigan lakefront in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, stands the Milwaukee Art Museum, often shortened to MAM. Close to 35,000 works of art belong to it, and its galleries span 150,000 square feet (13,900 square meters), making it the biggest art museum in Wisconsin and one of the biggest in the United States. Its strengths include works by Ashcan School painters from the US, and its Georgia O'Keeffe works form one of the largest such collections in the country.
The museum's roots lie in two institutions founded in 1888, the Milwaukee Art Institute and the Layton Art Gallery. In 1957 they combined their collections in a new building, the Milwaukee County War Memorial, designed by Eero Saarinen, and the museum was renamed Milwaukee Art Museum in 1980. Expansions followed: the Kahler Building (1975), the Quadracci Pavilion (2001) and an East End entrance (2015).
Santiago Calatrava designed the Quadracci Pavilion. At its center rises Windover Hall, a reception area 90 feet (27 m) tall under a glass roof, and its style and symbolism draw on Gothic architecture and represent a ship looking over Lake Michigan. By day the movable brise soleil spreads to a 217-foot (66 m) wingspan, and at night or in poor weather it folds. Wind sensors close the wings when gusts pass 37 km/h (23 miles per hour) for three seconds or more.
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 | 17 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 21 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Thin wing fins
- The raised wings are made of many thin fins. Print friendly adapts these slim members to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- Mast and fine cables
- Fine cables fan out from a slanted mast beside the pavilion. A larger print size, layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm and slow printing help keep them crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The Milwaukee Art 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 Milwaukee Art 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 Milwaukee Art 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 Milwaukee Art 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 Milwaukee Art Museum 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.
