3D print the Museum of the Future
A free, printable model of the Museum of the Future, an oval ring covered in raised script, and the wide roads and towers around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Museum of the Future
The Museum of the Future stands in Dubai's Financial District, in the UAE. Its seven floors explore where science, technology and innovation are heading. Its home is a torus-shaped building, and the windows of the facade spell out Arabic text about the future by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai's ruler. The UAE government opened the museum on February 22, 2022, when the sheikh inaugurated it that evening with a light show.
The building is said to be among the world's most complex structures. Its designer is the Emirati architecture firm Shaun Killa Design, and Buro Happold was the engineer. The shell, a torus, rests on the building and is built from 1,024 composite panels, fire-retardant and clad in stainless steel, every one with its own three-dimensional shape that helps form the Arabic script. The Emirati artist Matar Bin Lahej wrote the calligraphy. The building attained LEED Platinum certification on February 3, 2023.
Inside, visitors take an imagined trip to the year 2071. Of the seven floors, five hold exhibits on different themes, and the journey starts on the fifth floor and works downward. Themes include life in space, ecology and biodiversity, therapies for the senses, cutting-edge technology, and a first floor of activities for children under 10.
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 | 21 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 27 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 34 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Raised script on the ring
- Thin raised lettering follows the surface of the ring. Print friendly adapts it to the print scale; Full detail keeps the script on a larger print, and layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep it crisp.
- An open oval ring
- The ring rises from a wide base and curves back over it. Thinner layers keep its smooth curves clean, and printing slowly helps the overhanging parts.
- One piece with the ground
- The Museum of the Future 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 the Future 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 the Future 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 the Future 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 the Future grows with the print: about 21 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.
