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
A Description of the Famous Kingdome of Macaria A Description of the Famous Kingdome of Macaria A Description of the Famous Kingdome of Macaria is a work of utopian fiction, published in England in 1641. It carried the name of Samuel Hartlib, who published it, but is now attributed to Gabriel Plattes. A short text of fifteen pages, it reads, according to Amy Boesky, like a political address, and it was explicitly framed as an address to Parliament. It is written as a dialogue, and is in the tradition of the "Utopia" of Thomas More — Macaria is an island mentioned in "Utopia" — and the "New Atlantis"