Utopia Christianopolis Analysis
J.V. Andrea’s model utopia Christianopolis has a museum “about the most wonderful things can be said for the whole of nature is to be seen depicted on the wall” and is located in the heart of the city. In Tomasso Campanella’s utopia City of the Sun knowledge is not represented by a by a specific building it is written on the city walls causing learning to be integrated into daily life. Francis Bacon’s utopian island New Atlantis was built around a collection “dedicated to the study of the true nature of all things, the enlarging bounds of the human empire, and the effecting of all things possible” with the center of knowledge in the “eye” of the city. In idealistic models the museum is an essential component of the city this is due to philosophers