[ryanmercer]

> This included several whimsical stuff that wasn't research like Experience Music Project and Museum of Science Fiction.

While not research, those things can have profound impacts on people. Several years ago a Star Wars exhibit came to the Indiana State Museum here in Indianapolis, they had an entire section dedicated to both the prosthetic devices in the film and in real life, one of the video segments playing next to some props from the film and real prosthetic devices was a clip of one of the inventors of the real technology talking about how watching the film version directly led to him pursuing his career and working directly on various prosthetic devices trying to make it a reality.

These sorts of experiences could have profound impact on the creative process for one or more individuals that might have far more profound effects for society than active research.