3D print the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
A free, printable model of the museum's bowl-shaped main gallery, round wing and tall annex, with the buildings, streets and park areas around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often called the Guggenheim, is a Manhattan art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue, on the Upper East Side, between 88th and 89th Streets. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation established it in 1939 under the name Museum of Non-Objective Painting, with Hilla von Rebay as its first director. It took its present name in 1952, three years after its founder, Solomon R. Guggenheim, died. Its permanent collection covers contemporary art as well as Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern work.
The building is a landmark of 20th-century architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright. Designing and building it took 15 years, and it was completed in 1959. Wright produced over 700 sketches, along with six sets of working drawings. The design caused controversy at first, chiefly for the unusual shape of the display spaces, and was widely praised afterward. It is the only museum Wright designed, and its urban site required a vertical rather than horizontal form, unlike his earlier rural works.
A six-story main gallery, shaped like a bowl, sits to the south. A helical ramp, six stories high, winds along its edge beneath a central skylight in the ceiling. On the north side stands a four-story "monitor", and a ten-story annex rises to the northeast. The annex was built during extensive renovations from 1990 to 1992, and the building was renovated once more between 2005 and 2008.
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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- Spiral ramp bands and skylight
- The bowl-shaped gallery carries thin horizontal bands for the ramp, topped by a ribbed skylight. Print friendly adapts these fine lines to your print scale; Full detail keeps them, best on a larger print.
- Fine grid on the annex
- The tall annex block has a fine grid of window frames on its sides. A larger print keeps the grid readable, and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep its edges crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The Solomon R. Guggenheim 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 Solomon R. Guggenheim 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 Solomon R. Guggenheim 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 a Solomon R. Guggenheim 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 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 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.
