3D print the The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
A free, printable model of The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, a cluster of low gabled buildings set in green lawns beside a looping road, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Without a permanent collection of its own, it is the sole museum in the state devoted entirely to contemporary art. It presents first solo museum shows for emerging artists, major exhibitions for established artists and those in mid-career whose work deserves more recognition, group shows built around themes from art and society, and newly commissioned pieces.
Larry Aldrich founded the museum in 1964, aiming for it to be among the earliest museums in the United States that were truly contemporary. He sold works he owned, including pieces by Picasso, Miró, Chagall and Paul Klee, and used the money to buy "Old Hundred", a former church and general store from the 18th century on Main Street, built in 1783. In 1967 it took the name The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, and in 1981 its board voted to deaccession the permanent collection.
A major renovation and expansion started in April 2003 with a groundbreaking, and the galleries reopened in June 2004 with the title, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Charles Mark Hay of Tappé Associates in Boston designed the new building, drawing on traditional New England architecture in an abstract way. The American Institute of Architects gave it a design award.
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 | 4 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 5 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 6 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Pitched roofs
- Several gabled roofs meet at different angles, with fine ridge lines. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the roof lines crisp.
- A small model
- The group of buildings is low. A larger print size gives the small windows and roof details more room, or choose Full detail.
- One piece with the ground
- The The Aldrich Contemporary Art 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 The Aldrich Contemporary Art 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 The Aldrich Contemporary Art 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 The Aldrich Contemporary Art 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 The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum grows with the print: about 4 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.
