3D print the Museum of Science
A free, printable model of the Museum of Science and the river, park and city blocks around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Museum of Science
The Museum of Science is a nature and science museum with an indoor zoo, in Science Park, a stretch of ground shared by Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, that spans the Charles River. It has over 700 interactive exhibits and daily live presentations. Films are shown in the Mugar Omni Theater, which is the only domed IMAX theater in New England, and at the Charles Hayden Planetarium. The museum is home to over 100 animals.
The institution started in 1830 under the name Boston Society of Natural History, and took the name Museum of Science in 1939 when Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr. was director. The society negotiated a 99-year lease on land at the Charles River Dam Bridge; the land is Science Park. Each year the museum pays the state $1. Work started in 1948, with the opening following in 1951.
The permanent Charles Hayden Planetarium building opened in 1958. The main entrance straddles the border between Boston and Cambridge, and a floor marker inside the museum shows the line between the two cities. Between 2005 and 2006 the museum went through a major renovation and expansion.
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 | 21 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Domes and a small spire
- A tower with a thin spire and small domes rise from the long, low building. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print.
- Water around the site
- The river wraps the site on both sides. A layer height of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keeps the building edges and shoreline crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The Museum of Science 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 Science 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 Science 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 Science 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 Science 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.
