3D print the National Museum of Nature and Science
A free, printable model of Tokyo's National Museum of Nature and Science, an older domed building beside a large boxy block, set in green parkland, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the National Museum of Nature and Science
Tokyo's National Museum of Nature and Science stands at the northeastern corner of Ueno Park. Its exhibitions cover Japanese science from before the Meiji period, and the taxidermied remains of the legendary dogs HachikÅ, Taro and Jiro are on display. A steam locomotive and a life-size blue whale model stand outside.
The museum opened in 1877. Among its earlier names were the Tokyo Science Museum and the Ministry of Education Museum, and by 2007 it carried the name National Museum of Nature and Science. Renovations took place in the 1990s and 2000s. The main building, finished in September 1931 in Neo-Renaissance style as part of reconstruction after the Great Kanto Earthquake, was designed to withstand earthquakes of that class. Seen from above it looks like an airplane, and besides exhibition halls it has an astronomical observation dome and an auditorium. It received Important Cultural Property designation on June 9, 2008.
Items in the collection designated as national Important Cultural Properties include a myriad year clock made by Hisashige Tanaka in 1851 and the Milne horizontal pendulum seismograph, the oldest existing seismograph in Japan, installed in 1899. The Sogeograph, a tin foil gramophone made in England, was the first phonograph introduced to Japan.
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 | 8 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 10 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 12 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Small domes on the old building
- Small domes cap the older main building. Print friendly adapts the smallest dome details to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, best on a larger print.
- Many rows of windows
- The large block and the older building both carry many rows of windows. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm help keep them crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The National Museum of Nature and 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 National Museum of Nature and 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 National Museum of Nature and 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 National Museum of Nature and 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 National Museum of Nature and Science grows with the print: about 8 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.
