Nikola Tesla Museum (Belgrade)
 Nikola Tesla Museum |
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| place | Belgrade |
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Biographical museum, technology museum
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| architect | Dragiša Brašovan |
| opening | 5th December 1952 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 120,000 (2017) |
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The Nikola Tesla Museum ( Serbian Музеј Николе Тесле Muzej Nikole Tesle ) is a museum in memory of the inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla in the Serbian capital Belgrade . Tesla's urn and a large part of his estate are also in the museum. For this reason, the museum's archive is inscribed on the World Document Heritage List.
history
The museum is housed in a villa formerly built for residential purposes in the Belgrade district of Vračar . The building was designed by the Serbian architect Dragiša Brašovan and built in 1929. Before it was designated the site of the Nikola Tesla Museum in 1952, it served a variety of purposes. The decision to set up the museum was made by the government of the FVR Yugoslavia after the estate of Nikola Tesla was awarded to his nephew Sava Kosanović by a US court in 1951 and transferred to Belgrade. The museum finally opened on December 5, 1952.
On April 5, 2008, a model of the Tesla fountain he developed was inaugurated in a small park on the street corner across from the museum .
Exhibitions
In addition to periodically changing exhibitions, the ground floor of the house houses a permanent exhibition that illustrates Nikola Tesla's life with numerous personal items. In other rooms there are several functional exhibits that are intended to bring Tesla's inventions closer to the visitor. A 15-minute film about the life and work of Nikola Tesla is shown at regular intervals in a video room.
archive
The Nikola Tesla Archive is housed on the upper floor of the museum. It houses around 160,000 original documents, 2,000 books and magazines, 1,200 exhibits from the history of technology, 1,500 photographs, photo plates , instruments and equipment as well as 1,000 plans and drawings. Due to the outstanding importance of Nikola Tesla's work for the development of electrical engineering and the large number of documents from his life stored in the building, the archive was entered in the list of World Document Heritage in 2003.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nikole Tesle u 2017. posetilo 120,000 ljudi. Radio-Televizija Srbije / Tanjug , December 25, 2017, accessed on September 5, 2019 .
Coordinates: 44 ° 48 ′ 18.3 " N , 20 ° 28 ′ 14.5" E