3D print the National Museum of Western Art
A free, printable model of Tokyo's National Museum of Western Art, a low building around a courtyard, with the park paths and nearby buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the National Museum of Western Art
The National Museum of Western Art stands in Taitō, central Tokyo, within Ueno Park. It is Japan's premier public art gallery for art from the Western tradition, and the only national institution in Japan devoted to Western art. The museum was established on June 10, 1959, and grew around art that Kōjirō Matsukata (1865–1950) had collected. It houses about 4,500 works, with painting and sculpture dating from the 14th century to the early 20th century.
Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier designed the Main Building, which is his only representative example of work in the Far East. Completed in March 1959, the reinforced concrete building symbolizes how diplomatic ties between Japan and France had resumed after World War II. France had stipulated that a French architect design the museum before Matsukata's collection returned to Japan. Le Corbusier asked three Japanese apprentices, Takamasa Yoshizaka, Kunio Maekawa and Junzo Sakakura, to develop the detailed drawings and supervise construction.
The building has a square plan, with its main galleries lifted on piloti to the first floor. Visitors enter at ground level through the 19th Century Hall, a double-height space lit from above by a north glazed pyramidal skylight, and a promenade ramp leads up to the paintings gallery. UNESCO added 17 works by Le Corbusier to its World Heritage list in July 2016, and this building is among them.
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 | 4 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 5 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 6 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Slim columns under the building
- Part of the building is raised on slim columns, called piloti. Print friendly adapts thin parts to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print.
- Small pyramid on a flat roof
- A small pyramid rises from one flat roof. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep its sloped faces smooth, and a larger print size keeps more of its shape.
- One piece with the ground
- The National Museum of Western Art 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 Western Art 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 Western Art 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 Western Art 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 Western Art grows with the print: about 4 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.
