3D print the Oscar Niemeyer Museum
A free, printable model of the Oscar Niemeyer Museum's eye-shaped annex, a curved volume on a narrow block above a pool, set in a green garden, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Oscar Niemeyer Museum
The Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Museu Oscar Niemeyer in Portuguese, stands in Curitiba, in the Brazilian state of Paraná. It opened in 2002 as the Novo Museu, also called the New Museum. On July 8, 2003, it was reinaugurated and named for its architect, Oscar Niemeyer, who was 95 when he completed the project. Because of its design it is also called Museu do Olho, or Eye Museum. Its focus is visual arts, architecture and design.
The complex has two buildings on 35 thousand square meters, 19 thousand of them for exhibitions. Niemeyer designed the first building in 1967, in keeping with the style of its day, as an educational institute; it opened in 1978. The museum shows many of his signature elements, including bold geometric forms, curved sculptural volumes set against rectangular ones, sinuous pedestrian ramps and large areas of white painted concrete.
The distinctive annex, reminiscent of a human eye, gave the museum a new identity, and the public could visit it from 2003. The reinforced concrete structure is 30 meters tall and sits above a pool of water, linked to the main museum building via an underground walkway. Inside, a large spiral stairway connects the levels. Landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx designed its garden.
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 | 9 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 11 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 14 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A big overhang above the pool
- The curved eye volume juts out far beyond the narrow block under it. Print friendly adapts thin overhanging edges to your print scale; printing slowly with good cooling helps.
- Lattice on the end faces
- The two end faces carry a fine diamond pattern. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep it crisp, and a larger print shows more of it.
- One piece with the ground
- The Oscar Niemeyer Museum 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 Oscar Niemeyer Museum 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 Oscar Niemeyer Museum 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 an Oscar Niemeyer Museum 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 Oscar Niemeyer Museum grows with the print: about 9 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.
