3D print the Philadelphia Museum of Art
A free, printable model of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, its columned central front, long wings and wide terrace, on a hilltop ringed by roads and parkland, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art grew out of a charter dated 1876, issued for Philadelphia's Centennial Exposition. Its main building, completed in 1928, crowns Fairmount, a rocky hill with the city's main reservoir on top, at Eakins Oval, where the Benjamin Franklin Parkway ends to the northwest. The museum holds major collections of European, American and Asian origin, spanning armor, photographs, drawings, prints, paintings, sculpture and decorative arts.
Two architectural firms, Horace Trumbauer's and Zantzinger, Borie and Medary, worked together for more than a decade on the design. Howell Lewis Shay and Julian Abele, both architects at Trumbauer's firm, receive most of the credit for the final design: Shay shaped the plan and massing, while Abele produced the detail work and perspective drawings. For the museum entrances, Abele adapted the columns of classical Greek temples. Construction began in 1919. The stone is dolomite from a Minnesota quarry, and the wings were built first.
Eight pediments were meant to carry sculpture groups, but only one was finished: Western Civilization, a 1933 work by C. Paul Jennewein, with painted terra-cotta figures of Greek deities and mythological figures. Bronze griffins also adorn the building, and they became the museum's symbol in the 1970s. A vaulted walkway 200 m (640 ft) long, original to the 1928 building, extends across the museum.
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 | 12 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 15 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 20 mm | 1:2,344 |
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West
- Columned central front
- Slim columns carry the pediment on the central front. Print friendly adapts thin columns to the print scale; Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- Wide terrace with fine lines
- A wide sloping terrace carries many fine parallel lines. A bigger print size keeps more of them, and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep them crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The Philadelphia Museum of 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 Philadelphia Museum of 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 Philadelphia Museum of 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 Philadelphia Museum of 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 Philadelphia Museum of Art grows with the print: about 12 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.
