3D print the Sursock Museum
A free, printable model of the Sursock Museum, a building with an ornate arched facade and small rooftop domes, and the streets and buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Sursock Museum
The Sursock Museum is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Beirut, Lebanon; its official name is the Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock Museum. A private villa built in 1912 by Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock, a Lebanese aristocrat, houses the museum. His will decreed that the villa become a museum. He died in 1952 and left the villa to the city. From 1953 to 1957 the villa served as a presidential guesthouse, a palais des hôtes, after President Camille Chamoun converted it, for visiting heads of state, for example King Faisal of Iraq and the Shah of Iran. It opened as a museum in 1961.
The building is an example of Lebanese architecture, with Italianate (specifically Venetian) and Ottoman influences. Few villas from its period remain in Beirut, and this is one of them. It stands on Rue Sursock, in Beirut's Rmeil district. Its permanent collection spans Islamic art, Japanese engravings and modern art, and holds more than 800 works across paintings, sculpture and graphic arts, dating to the 19th and 20th centuries.
The museum added four new underground floors beneath the garden for US$12 million. Jean-Michel Wilmotte of France and Jacques Abou Khaled of Lebanon designed the expansion, which grew the museum from 1,500 to 8,500 square meters. It provided more exhibition space, a restoration workshop, an auditorium, a research library, storage for the collection, a store and a restaurant, and the museum reopened on October 8, 2015.
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 | 5 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 6 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 8 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Ornate openwork facade
- The front carries a fine arcade, a balustrade and curved steps. Print friendly adapts these small details to the print scale, while Full detail keeps them on a larger print.
- Small rooftop domes and finials
- Tiny domes and corner finials sit on the roof. A larger print size keeps them, and layers of 0.12–0.16 mm help them print cleanly.
- One piece with the ground
- The Sursock 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 Sursock 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 Sursock 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 Sursock 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 Sursock Museum grows with the print: about 5 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.
