Vancouver’s Science World has a brief cameo in a new music video from Taylor Swift. In the video for The Fate of Ophelia, the lead single from Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl, the iconic dome of the west coast science centre can be seen briefly outside a window as Swift dashes by.

The blink-and-miss-it moment comes at about the three-minute-and-42-second mark, just before the end of the four-minute video.

It’s a busy four minutes full of scene and costume changes as Swift portrays a version of the character Ophelia from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

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At the start of the video she looks like a painting of the character by 19th-century artist John Everett Millais, before morphing into a burlesque performer in the style of Marilyn

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