3D print the National Museum of Scotland
A free, printable model of the National Museum of Scotland, two linked buildings with a long arched roof and a round tower, among dense city blocks, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the National Museum of Scotland
The National Museum of Scotland, in Edinburgh, is dedicated to Scottish history and culture. In 2006 the new Museum of Scotland, which holds Scottish antiquities and objects of Scottish culture and history, merged with the neighboring Royal Scottish Museum, whose international collections span science, technology, natural history and world cultures. Its two linked buildings sit side by side on Chambers Street, near the junction with George IV Bridge in central Edinburgh. It belongs to National Museums Scotland.
Each building keeps its own character. A modern building, opened in 1998, houses the Museum of Scotland. The former Royal Museum building, begun in 1861 and partly opened in 1866, has a grand cast-iron central hall rising the building's full height and a façade in the Victorian Venetian Renaissance style; Francis Fowke and Robert Matheson designed it. Following a project to restore and extend it, led by Gareth Hoskins Architects, lasting three years and costing £47 million, it reopened on July 29, 2011, while Ralph Appelbaum Associates redesigned the exhibitions at the same time.
The earlier National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland's collections have been absorbed, alongside artifacts from around the world. Dolly the sheep, stuffed, is a notable exhibit; she was the first mammal successfully cloned from an adult cell. Visitors will also find Ancient Egyptian exhibitions, the Jean Muir Collection of costume, the Millennium Clock, a large kinetic sculpture, and an early beheading machine called the Scottish Maiden, which predates the French guillotine.
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 | 10 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 12 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 16 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Long arched hall roof
- A long arched roof with fine surface texture runs over the central hall. Print friendly adapts such fine texture to your print scale; Full detail keeps it, best on a larger print with 0.12 to 0.16 mm layers.
- Round tower and small windows
- A round tower stands at one end, and small windows dot the walls. A larger print keeps these small features easier to read.
- One piece with the ground
- The National Museum of Scotland 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 Scotland 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 Scotland 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 Scotland 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 Scotland grows with the print: about 10 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.
