In June, TED favorite Marco Tempest told us about the “electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla,” the late 1800s inventor who held more than 700 patents, including for concepts still used today like alternating current, radio, remote control and robotics. However, after building a wireless telegraphy center in upstate New York that he envisioned being used to contact other planets, Tesla’s reputation was irreparably tarnished. He became a recluse, living alone at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel until his death in 1943.

The website The Oatmeal recently called Nikola Tesla “the greatest geek who ever lived.” And now the site is campaigning for a Tesla museum.

Tesla’s laboratory — known as Wardenclyffe — was located in Shoreham, New York, and was abandoned in 1917 when funding for his telegraphy project was cut. The gigantic tower that once loomed over the property has long since been destroyed. But Tesla’s underground lab has remained in tact.

The property is currently for sale for $1.6 million. And, according to Matthew Inman of The Oatmeal, a non-profit is trying to buy it to build the only Tesla museum in the United States, the Nikola Tesla Science Center. (There is currently a Tesla museum in Belgrade, Serbia.) New York State is even offering a matching grant of $850K to make the property a historic site, meaning that only $850K needs to be raised.

And thus, the website has launched the campaign with a NSFW title.

Operation Let’s Build a Goddamn Tesla Museum is brought to you through the crowdfunding site Ingiegogo.com. Donate $50 and get a Wardenclyffe t-shirt and Tesla-themed bumper sticker. Give $1,000 and get a poster autographed by Tesla’s last remaining relative. So far $426K has been raised with 44 days left to go in the campaign.

But that’s not all.

The Oatmeal points out that the money being raised is for the purchase of the property only, not for the building of the center itself. The site is also issuing a call out for corporate sponsors.

“J.P. Morgan, you there? One hundred years ago you believed in Tesla and backed him financially. Honor his legacy and help him out again,” Inman writes. “General Electric: Thomas Edison founded GE and screwed Tesla out of A TON of money. It’s never too late to make amends. Sponsor this museum! The internet will love you forever, I promise.”

Another potential backer Inman has in mind: Christian Bale, the star of the upcoming Nikola Tesla biopic.

Illusionist Marco Tempest is known for making magic out of new technology, memorably using iPods culled from the TED audience for his talk about the beauty of deception. But for his newest TEDTalk, Tempest reaches to the past to create visual wizardry, telling the story of inventor Nikola Tesla using the principles of tanagra theatre.

Hugely popular in the early 20th century, tanagra theater thrilled audiences by using a series of mirrors to transform the image of an actor offstage and project a tiny version onstage. Tempest felt that tanagra theater offered the perfect visual sleight-of-hand to introduce audiences to the sad story of Nikola Tesla, recently called “the greatest geek who ever lived” by the website The Oatmeal. Tesla, a thinker and engineer born in 1856, held over 700 patents, including many to concepts still used today like alternating current, radio, remote control, and robotics. However, after proposing a wireless telegraphy center that could be used to contact other planets, Tesla’s reputation was trashed. He became a recluse, living alone at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

Using the principles of tanagra theater, Tempest was able to interact onstage with a miniature Tesla, played by an actor.

In this video, Tempest and his creative team—David Britland (script), Kevin Blanc (art direction), Alain Renold (motion design), Peter Dahmen (pop-up design), Michael Ricar (music and sound design), Enrico Viola (software development), Manuel Rueda Iragorri (tech wizard) and Signe Fleischmann—explain how they crafted a white pop-up book that serves as a stage for tiny Tesla, whose images appears on the 3D pages through a technique called “projection mapping.” The team reveals that making the book and the projection interact seamlessly was a huge undertaking, complicated by the fact that Tempest was located in New York while the rest of the team was in Switzerland. In total, they created 17 final versions of the mind-bending presentation.

The end result is a magical and powerful TEDTalk that will leave you feeling differently about a thinker whose contributions to society have crept off our cultural radar.