Art in Science Museums

I don't have any really insightful commentary to put here, I'm just too excited about this being acknowledged as a trend:

Art Installations Find Fertile Ground in Science Centers."
"At the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul, Bruce Shapiro has been an artist in residence. He specializes in “motion control” installations whose aim, he said, is to pique curiosity and inspire a sense of wonder.

One of his first works was a lobby installation at the Minnesota museum called “Pipedream I,” which uses bubbles like pixels to create an image in 16 tubes. His latest, more complex iteration of this idea, “Pipedream IV” at Discovery World in Milwaukee, employs 96 tubes and allows visitors to have their pictures taken by a webcam and “see their face percolate up the marquee.”