3D print the National Gallery of Canada
A free, printable model of the National Gallery of Canada, with its glass-topped halls and corner pavilions, and the park, roads and water around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the National Gallery of Canada
The National Gallery of Canada is the country's national art museum, found in the capital, Ottawa, Ontario. The building covers 46,621 square meters (501,820 sq ft), of which 12,400 square meters (133,000 sq ft) is used to show art. Judged by exhibition space, it is among the biggest art museums in North America.
It was founded in 1880 in the building of the Second Supreme Court of Canada. In 1911 it moved into the Victoria Memorial Museum building. A National Gallery Act passed by the Government of Canada in 1913 formally set out the institution's mandate, and the Lorne Building became its home in 1960.
In 1988 the Gallery moved into a new complex by architect Moshe Safdie, who is Canadian-Israeli-American. Built of glass and granite, it stands on Sussex Drive, and its site has a notable view of the Parliament Buildings on Parliament Hill. The permanent collection has more than 93,000 works; the artists are European, American, Asian, Canadian and Indigenous. The Gallery also organizes and hosts traveling exhibitions.
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 | 17 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 22 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Corner turrets and roof lights
- Small domed pavilions sit at the building's corners and rows of roof lights run along the top. Print friendly adapts these small features to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on larger prints.
- Long, regular facade
- The long walls repeat fine vertical lines. A layer height of 0.12–0.16 mm keeps them crisp, and a bigger print size keeps them distinct.
- One piece with the ground
- The National Gallery of Canada 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 National Gallery of Canada 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 National Gallery of Canada 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 National Gallery of Canada 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 National Gallery of Canada 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.
