3D print Tūhura Otago Museum
A free, printable model of Tūhura Otago Museum, a multi-wing building with hipped roofs, skylight ridges and a columned entrance, beside lawns and low houses, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About Tūhura Otago Museum
Tūhura Otago Museum sits close to the center of Dunedin in New Zealand, beside the University of Otago campus, and is among the largest museums in the country. Its collections hold natural science specimens as well as artifacts of the humanities, drawn from the Otago region and further afield. Its interactive science center has an immersive butterfly house set in tropical rainforest. A 2022 renaming made it Tūhura Otago Museum, with tūhura, a Māori word that means exploring, investigating and discovering.
James Hector first used the name Otago Museum for his geological collections shown at the 1865 New Zealand Exhibition in Dunedin. The museum opened to the public on September 12, 1868, at the Dunedin Exchange building, which stood on Princes Street. Its Great King Street foundation was laid in December 1874, and the new building opened in August 1877 to a design by Dunedin architect David Ross. It remains part of the museum, and the first entrance, framed by Doric-style pillars of Oamaru stone, can be seen on Great King Street.
Later wings added space: the Hocken Wing, by John Burnside, opened in 1910, the Willi Fels wing in 1930 and the Centennial Wing in 1963. Redevelopment in the 1990s and 2000s added architect Ted McCoy's central Atrium. Two of the world's three complete moa eggs are held here, along with some 150 cuneiform tablets and inscriptions, the largest known group of its kind in the southern hemisphere.
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 | 6 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 7 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 9 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Glazed roof grids
- Fine grid frames cover the skylight roofs. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print, ideally with 0.12–0.16 mm layers.
- A small columned portico
- The entrance porch has slim columns under a pediment. Print friendly adapts the thinnest columns to the print scale, and a larger print size keeps them sturdier.
- One piece with the ground
- Tūhura Otago 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. Tūhura Otago 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
Tūhura Otago 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 Tūhura Otago 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. Tūhura Otago Museum grows with the print: about 6 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.
