Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade, Serbia, Biographical and science museum in Vračar district, Belgrade, Serbia
The Nikola Tesla Museum occupies a 1927 residential villa designed by Serbian architect Dragiša Brašovan. The two-story building has a pale stone facade, a central section with paired columns supporting a triangular pediment, and a balustraded terrace. A dark plaque with an inscription is mounted left of the entrance doors.
The museum occupies a residential villa built in 1927 for Đorđe Genčić to designs by architect Dragiša Brašovan. After confiscation in 1945, the building served various purposes until 5 December 1952, when the Nikola Tesla Museum was founded by decision of the Yugoslav government. Tesla's items had been shipped from New York to Belgrade on 7 September 1951 through the efforts of his nephew Sava Kosanović and attorney Philip Wittenberg.
The building honors an inventor born in the region during the 19th century who later worked in America. Visitors walk through rooms that show how his ideas contributed to the development of modern electrical engineering.
Entry is paid at the ground floor desk, and guided tours are available in several languages. The rooms connect through staircases, so visitors with limited mobility should consider this when planning their visit.
Tesla's urn, a gilded sphere on a marble pedestal, stands in the memorial room, so the museum is also his burial place. The archive held here was entered on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2003 for its record of world electrification.
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