3D print the National Theatre (Prague)
A free, printable model of the National Theatre, an ornate building with a curved roof beside a river, and the buildings and streets around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the National Theatre (Prague)
The National Theatre in Prague is a historic opera house, called the alma mater of Czech opera. It is also a national monument to Czech history and art. Its site is on the bank of the Vltava, facing the Prague Castle panorama. The land, a former salt works, was bought with the help of proceeds from the first public collection. The cramped, trapezium-shaped plot posed challenging problems for the designers.
Josef Zítek, a professor of civil engineering at Prague's technical college who was 33 at the time, drafted the design, and construction work began in 1867. The foundation stone was laid on May 16, 1868. The building rose to its full height by 1875, and it was roofed over in 1877. Its exterior features a triga, which is a chariot drawn by three horses, along with 10 allegorical sculptures by Bohuslav Schnirch and 10 more pieces by Antonín Pavel Wagner.
The theater first opened on June 11, 1881, in honor of a visit by Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, with the world premiere of Bedřich Smetana's opera Libuše. A fire on August 12, 1881, destroyed the copper dome, along with the auditorium and the stage. A million florins were raised in 47 days, and Josef Schulz, a pupil of Zítek, was called in to work on the reconstruction. The building was inaugurated again on November 18, 1883.
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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- Ornaments along the roof
- Small ornaments line the curved roof and the cornice. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print or with a fine nozzle.
- Shallow facade relief
- The facades carry columns, arches and window frames in shallow relief. A larger print size keeps them readable, and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep their edges crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The National Theatre (Prague) 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 Theatre (Prague) 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 Theatre (Prague) 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 Theatre (Prague) 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 Theatre (Prague) 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.
