3D print the Museum of Liverpool
A free, printable model of the Museum of Liverpool, an angular building with sloping roof edges on a waterside quay, and the water and buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Museum of Liverpool
The Museum of Liverpool tells the story of the city and its people and reflects Liverpool's global importance. It opened in 2011, joining the National Museums Liverpool group as its newest addition and taking over from the former Museum of Liverpool Life. Its home is a new purpose-built building at the Pier Head, on the Mann Island site. The architects 3XN designed it with the engineers Buro Happold, and Galliford Try built it for £72 million.
The museum offers 8,000 square meters of exhibition space and houses more than 6,000 objects. It welcomed the public from June 19, 2011. Its displays are organized under four themes, The Great Port and Global City, along with People's Republic and Wondrous Place, each in its own large gallery. On the ground floor, the focus is the city's technological and urban development, while upstairs the museum examines Liverpool's social history, its migration, and its diverse communities and cultures.
Other features include a gallery named Little Liverpool for children under six, and History Detectives, a hands-on resource center for archaeology and history. A 180-seat theater hosts community and audio-visual performances, and a gallery called "City Soldiers" covers the history of the King's Regiment. Steam locomotive Lion, which starred in the film The Titfield Thunderbolt, was brought by road to Liverpool in February 2007, during construction, and ended up in the new museum.
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 | 7 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 9 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 12 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Angled roof edges
- The roof and walls meet in sloping angled edges that jut out over the entrance sides. Layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep the angles sharp, and a larger print size keeps small edges from rounding off.
- Fine facade opening pattern
- The long walls carry a pattern of small openings. Use Full detail with a fine nozzle, or a larger print size, to keep that pattern visible.
- One piece with the ground
- The Museum of Liverpool 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 Museum of Liverpool 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 Museum of Liverpool 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 Museum of Liverpool 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 Museum of Liverpool grows with the print: about 7 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.
