3D print Museo Soumaya
A free, printable model of the Museo Soumaya and the streets, green patches and large buildings around it in Mexico City, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Museo Soumaya
Mexico City's Museo Soumaya is a private museum run as a non-profit cultural institution, and it has two buildings: Plaza Loreto, which opened in 1994, and Plaza Carso, which opened in 2011. More than 66,000 works span 30 centuries of art, from Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican sculpture and Mexican art of the 19th and 20th centuries to works by European masters, among them Salvador Dalí, Auguste Rodin, Tintoretto and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. The museum is named for Soumaya Domit, who died in 1999; she was the wife of its founder, Carlos Slim.
The Plaza Carso building has six floors and rises 46 meters (151 ft), its skin made up of 16,000 hexagonal aluminum tiles. Fernando Romero, Slim's son-in-law and a Mexican architect, designed it, with engineering by Ove Arup and Frank Gehry, at a cost of $70 million. Its weight rests on an exoskeleton: 28 curved vertical steel columns plus seven beams that wrap around the building. The roof stays stable by hanging from a cantilever.
Each of the six floors has its own distinct shape, and the floors are high-quality marble imported from Greece. A narrow entrance opens into a large white gallery, and daytime sunlight lights the open top floor. Besides the art galleries, there are a library, a restaurant and a 350-seat auditorium. The building stands in Plaza Carso, a large mixed-use development in Nuevo Polanco. Visitors were first admitted on March 28, 2011.
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 | 14 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 18 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 23 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A skin of tiny hexagons
- The curved walls are covered in a pattern of very small hexagonal tiles. A bigger print size shows the pattern more clearly; Print friendly adapts it to the print scale, while Full detail keeps every tile.
- A pinched waist and a flared top
- The walls narrow in the middle and flare out toward the roof. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the curve smooth, and a slower print speed with good cooling helps the wide top.
- One piece with the ground
- Museo Soumaya 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. Museo Soumaya 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
Museo Soumaya 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 Museo Soumaya 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. Museo Soumaya grows with the print: about 14 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.
