Culture of the United Kingdom the shipyard where "Titanic" was built, was opened to the public in 2012. The architecture is a tribute to "Titanic" itself, with the external facades a nod to the enormous hull of the cruise liner. The first Madame Tussauds wax museum opened in London in 1835, and today displays waxworks of famous people from various fields, including royalty (Princess Diana), historical figures (Henry VIII), sport (David Beckham), music (Freddie Mercury), literature (Charles Dickens), politics (Winston Churchill), television (Gordon Ramsay), and cinema (Michael Caine) among others. The most senior art gallery is the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, which houses a
Science Museum, London Society of Arts and surplus items from the Great Exhibition as part of the South Kensington Museum, together with what is now the Victoria and Albert Museum. It included a collection of machinery which became the "Museum of Patents" in 1858, and the "Patent Office Museum" in 1863. This collection contained many of the most famous exhibits of what is now the Science Museum. In 1883, the contents of the Patent Office Museum were transferred to the South Kensington Museum. In 1885, the Science Collections were renamed the "Science Museum" and in 1893 a separate director was appointed. The Art