3D print the Nanjing Museum
A free, printable model of the Nanjing Museum, a group of linked halls around lawns and a small pond, and the streets and city blocks around them, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Nanjing Museum
The Nanjing Museum is a public museum of Jiangsu Province, in the city of Nanjing, China. The provincial government owns it, and the province's Department of Culture and Tourism operates it. Among China's largest museums, it covers 70,000 square meters (17 acres) and has a permanent collection of more than 400,000 items. Its holdings of Ming and Qing imperial porcelain are especially notable, and are among the biggest in the world.
The museum grew out of the National Central Museum's preparatory department, set up in 1933 and counted among the first museums established in China. That department occupied 12.9 hectares (32 acres) of Zhongshan Gate's Half Hill Garden. Cai Yuanpei served as the council's first preparatory president and proposed three major halls: Humanity, Craft and Nature. Political instability in 1930s China meant that only the Humanity Hall was built. Extensions were added in 1999 and 2009.
Liang Sicheng designed the main building in the 1930s, blending Chinese and Western styles of architecture. The front section is traditional, with a golden tiled roof, and the back is a Western-style structure with a flat roof. An art hall added in the 1990s, on the main building's west side, recalls Chinese architecture from the opening half of the 20th century.
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 | 11 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 14 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 18 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Traditional tiled roof
- The front hall has a hipped roof with fine tile ridges. Print friendly adapts the ridges to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print.
- Linked flat-roofed halls
- Several blocks join with flat roofs and small rooftop details. A larger print size keeps more of those details, and layers of 0.12–0.16 mm keep the edges crisp.
- 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 Nanjing 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 Nanjing 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 Nanjing 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 Nanjing Museum grows with the print: about 11 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.
